... NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR THE DEJOY VERSION OF THE USPS to get the ballots mailed out, collected, processed and into the county(Minnehaha) court house by the 7 pm deadline. If ballots arrive after 7 pm they won't be counted. 150 absentee ballots they refuse to count because USPS delivered them after 7 pm election day. It was a 4 vote difference in the mayors election, so recount kicked in.
"The three-member recount board spent all day Wednesday examining ballots and having votes counted. Absentee ballots have been reviewed. Incomplete results showed the June 26 certified winner Erickson, with a four-vote lead over Smith. Erickson has 18,283 votes to Jamie Smith’s 18,279.
Two votes separated Erickson and Smith after the June 23 runoff election. Erickson was certified as the winner on June 26.
Erickson, Smith react to first day of recount
The city clerk’s office said in a Monday news release that the recount was expected to take longer than the 10 hours required for the 2020 recount in a city council race.
The two candidates had advanced to the June 23 runoff election from the June 3 election, in which no candidate received 50% of the required votes to win."
https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/mayors-race-recount-continues-thursday/
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