The Iowa State Canvassing Board officially certified the 2020 general election results Monday, including the recount of the Second Congressional District Race.

Washington was one of the 24 counties that conducted a recount of the race, which resulted in Republican candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks winning over Democrat Rita Hart by six votes, 196,964 to 196,958. County Auditor Dan Widmer clarifies the recount process, which in Washington County showed no changes with Miller-Meeks receiving 6,633 votes and Hart receiving 4,650 votes, “Recount boards do not resolve the procedural or legal questions about the conduct of the election or the qualifications of voters. No additional evidence beyond the ballots that were counted is reviewed during a recount, so the recount board does not decide if ballots were correctly accepted or rejected. Instead they merely count the ballots which have already been counted.”

Several state records were set in this year’s election, with a voter turnout of 1,700,130 ballots, breaking a record last set in 2012. A new record was also set for absentee ballots cast, with 1,001,573, accounting for 58.9% of all ballots.