{"id":1770856,"date":"2022-12-09T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770856"},"modified":"2022-12-09T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:48:22","slug":"following-many-recounts-republican-wins-iowa-state-house-race-by-11-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/following-many-recounts-republican-wins-iowa-state-house-race-by-11-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Many Recounts, Republican Wins Iowa State House Race By 11 Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffollowing-many-recounts-republican-wins-iowa-state-house-race-by-11-votes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-967832124-scaled-e1670611248555.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After multiple recounts, the results of an Iowa state legislative race flipped in favor of Republican candidate Luana Stoltenberg by just 11 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The tumultuous process came to an end when a three-member board determined Stoltenberg was the winner in House District 81 with 5,073 votes, beating out Democrat Craig Cooper, who had 5,062, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/12\/08\/republican-luana-stoltenberg-wins-iowa-seat-after-second-recount\/69712396007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Des Moines Register. Stoltenberg\u2019s triumph adds to the Republican majority in the Iowa House, giving the GOP 64 seats compared to the Democrats\u2019 36, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much to everyone in District 81 for the honor of representing you in the Iowa House!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stoltenbergforhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoltenberg said in a post<\/a> to Facebook on Thursday. \u201cI want to hear what is important to you and how I can serve you these next couple years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post of his own, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/craigcooperforiowahousedistrict81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooper accepted defeat<\/a> but raised \u201cgrave concerns\u201d after the number of ballots counted across multiple tallies kept arriving at different numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I\u2019m disappointed we came up just a few votes short, I\u2019m proud of our work and I enjoyed meeting so many people in our community. It\u2019s clear voters are tired of politics and want lawmakers to work together to put people over politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Both Stoltenberg and Cooper held the lead at different junctures since Election Night, when the Republican appeared to have won by 29 votes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/after-several-recounts-and-results-changes-stoltenberg-is-the-winner-of-iowa-district-81-craig-cooper\/526-7c6e7983-0bf3-4fb9-b975-81318ec63780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported WQAD-TV<\/a>, a local ABC affiliate. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said an error was found in the tabulation of absentee ballots in Scott County, so an administrative recount was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>That process began with election officials in the county conducting a machine recount of absentee ballots, but they turned to a hand recount after the machines kept jamming. Following another machine count, the state reported in mid-November that Cooper led by six votes. Stoltenberg challenged the initial recount, leading to the final check, conducted by a three-person board featuring members chosen by the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The board, boasting representation from both political parties, performed a machine count and hand count. While the machine count settled on a tally \u201cvery similar\u201d to the initial recount and showing Cooper as the winner, the board went with its hand recount, which determined Stoltenberg as the victor by 11 votes, according to Scott County Auditor Kerri Tompkins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, it is still unclear if the original discrepancy was due to the machines or human error,\u201d Tompkins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottcountyiowa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/attachments\/posts\/Scott%20County%20Administrative%20Recount%20Report%2012072022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in a report<\/a> to the Iowa Secretary of State\u2019s Office. \u201cVideos have been reviewed and nothing stands out via our process from Election Day. However, we will review our processes with ES&#038;S [the machine vendor] and other stakeholders for additional clarity. We will modify our internal practices as necessary. In addition, we have been coordinating our efforts with the Iowa SOS office and appreciate their support and guidance. Our goal is to ensure accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After multiple recounts, the results of an Iowa state legislative race flipped in favor of Republican candidate Luana Stoltenberg by just 11 votes.The tumultuous process came to an end when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,3653,5626,5069,7379,3819,3911,4030,5745],"class_list":["post-1770856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-house","tag-iowa","tag-race","tag-recounts","tag-report","tag-republican","tag-votes","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}