The counting in Tuesday's Pottawattamie County primary election came to a sudden halt shortly after midnight today when Pottawattamie County Auditor Marilyn Jo Drake announced to the waiting courthouse crowd that something wasn't right with the new computers purchased to count the ballots.
As a result, all of Tuesday's ballots were in the process of being counted by hand today. Drake said the winners in Tuesday's election might not be known until around midnight this evening.
"We have no clue," she said of the cause of the problem.
But, something wasn't just right from the very beginning, she added.
Things began to look fishy, Drake said, when the county's new computers counted the absentee ballots in the Republican Party's county race between longtime Recorder John Sciortino and newcomer Oscar Duran.
Drake said she decided to count the absentee ballots by hand to determine if the computers were counting correctly.
They weren't - not by a long shot.
The actual absentee ballot count in the recorder's race when done by hand found Sciortino had 153 votes and Duran just 25.
It was then that she decided to stop the computer counting in all the races.
"They could be tainted, we don't know," Drake said.
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