From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
Many counties are certifying their election results later today. Iowa’s election results are considered unofficial until county officials certify them through a process called canvassing. County Auditors tally up the votes and present their findings to the county’s Board of Supervisors who certify the results. Some counties conducted their canvas yesterday, while others waited until today, delayed due to the Veterans Day holiday.
First District Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks is again claiming victory over Christina Bohannan, and says she will seek a top position with the House Republican Conference. In a statement Tuesday afternoon, Miller-Meeks says, “It is mathematically impossible for the ground to be made up with the remaining provisional ballots left to be counted.” She has an 800 vote lead over Democrat challenger Bohannan. Miller-Meeks says she’s also running for Secretary of the House Republican Conference. She said she believes Republicans “have an opportunity to lead while working to cement our majority for Congresses to come.”
A Cedar Rapids man will spend up to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting four people, including three underage girls, in three counties. Last week, a judge sentenced 20-year-old Jabari Dobbs to ten years in prison in Marion County for abusing a middle schooler in his dorm at Central College in Pella last year. He already got a 15 year sentence for choking and assaulting at 17-year-old at his home in Cedar Rapids last year, a 15 year sentence for sexually abusing a woman at his home in 2022, and 10-years for assaulting a 15-year-old at a park in Sigourney last year.
