NEWS RELEASE

Release date: Immediate Release – November 9, 2023 

Contact: Kerri Tompkins, Scott County Auditor 563-326-8631 (office) 

Scott County Post-Election Audit Confirms Results 

DAVENPORT – Scott County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections, Kerri Tompkins, announced that a Post-Election Audit of the ballots cast at BG of Scott County, Blue Grass Public Safety Building, in the recent City School election confirmed the results from election night.  

Her office conducted the Post-Election Audit on November 9, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. The Office of Iowa Secretary of State selected BG of Scott County for the Post-Election Audit by lot. The Secretary required that each county in Iowa to conduct an audit of the election results from a precinct randomly drawn by the Secretary’s Office. 

The ballots were hand counted by a board of three election officials, who did not serve in the BG site, and compared to the machine count of the same ballots. The hand counted results confirmed the vote totals were the same as the totals counted by machine on election night of 221 ballots for the Davenport School Board race.  

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