Polk’s Brien Puts Up $10,000 For Recount
The Register reports that Polk County recorder Brien has put his money where his mouth is. He’s posted $10,000 to get a recount of his apparently decisive defeat. He’s hoping lightning struck twice on June 6, since he knows the Pottawattamie county recorder and other candidates also were “defeated” in initial returns that were actually erroneous.
The Pottawattamie returns were so egregious that they were noticed right away. So far Brien seems to be the only one who suspects error in Polk’s results, and he admits he has no evidence for his suspicion. But his recount will provide us with the sort of audit that should routinely happen when machines do the counting. Too bad he has to pay for it himself.