Minnehaha County auditor to push forward with full election audit
Leah Anderson's supporters turn out as commissioners won't stand in way of review
Supporters of Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson streamed into the County Commission meeting Tuesday ahead of her presentation on why she planned to perform an audit of all the ballots cast in the June primary election.
A new state law requires county auditors to do a physical hand count of 5 percent of precincts, including one statewide race. The June election was the first one in which the new auditing requirement is in effect. Prior to the law, South Dakota was one of only a handful of states that didn’t require some type of post-election audit, and the new law was meant to ease doubts about election integrity.
But Anderson, who has been among the skeptics of electronic tabulators used to count ballots in South Dakota, surprised commissioners last week when she proposed auditing all of the precincts and all of the races during the primary.
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