Local voting group again cries foul over election results proven to be accurate

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By Dave Baumeister

County Correspondent

SIOUX FALLS – For the first time since last month’s General, the local election “integrity” people were back in force at the regular Minnehaha County Commission meeting on Dec. 3.

Seemingly they were there to again provide support for presentations made by county auditor Leah Anderson, but Anderson did not need the back-up for information she presented on an election recount and the post-election audit on Nov. 20 and 21, respectively.

The results of those two tallies showed negligible differences between the original count on election day.

The recount had been called by District 15 State House of Representatives candidate Joni Tschetter, who came in third of the four candidates in that district by only seven votes on Nov. 5 (the top two candidates were elected).

After the recount, the totals still had Tschetter finishing third, but with a nine-vote discrepancy.

The two winning candidates in that race were Democrats Kadyn Wittman (4,551) and Erik Muckey (4,365). Tschetter garnered 4,356 ballots.

Speaking after Anderson’s report, Tschetter felt like the recount had not been done properly, as she claimed the recount board had not done their work properly.

A member of the public came up after Tschetter and complained about the large number of voters registered to campgrounds, hotels and mail box stores in District 15.

And criticizing ways in which the State of South Dakota allows for voter registration has been a regular theme leveled at the county commission by the South Dakota Canvassing Group.

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