(Spencer)– Some Spencer citizens want a recount of the Spencer Middle School Bond Issue election held last week.
The referendum needed 60 percent voter approval to pass. It received 61.97 percent, meaning it passed by 73 votes.
R.D. Johnson turned a petition into the Clay County Auditor’s Office Monday with 99 signatures on it requesting a recount. County Auditor Marge Pitts says the petition meets requirements of Iowa Code. She says it names John Simmons as their representative on the recount board. Pitts says the school has been notified of the recount petition and received a copy of it via certified mail, as required by Iowa Code.
Pitts says the next step is to point a county or school representative to the recount board. That person, along with Simmons, will then appoint a third person to the recount board.
Pitts says the three-member recount board has to meet within the next week.
The Clay County Board of Supervisors canvassed the results from the election during their meeting today (Tues.).
Pitts says to her knowledge, this will be the first election recount to have ever taken place in Clay county.
(Story from Danielle Hitchings of sister station KDWD Hot 100 in Spencer).
