Kootenai County canvassers certify Nov. 4 consolidated election after staff report on machine tests, turnout and minor ballot errors

Kootenai County’s Board of Canvassers unanimously approved the canvas of the Nov. 4, 2025 consolidated election at a Nov. 13 meeting after elections staff reviewed testing, vote postings and a handful of ballot-issuance and absentee issues. The board’s motion to accept the canvas passed on a 3-0 vote.

Elections staff told Commissioners that county technicians and the county’s elections manager conducted both internal testing (a 903-ballot test deck) and a public logic-and-accuracy test on Oct. 17, and that the county retested equipment on election morning and after tabulation. The presenter, identified in the record as Asa, said every DSA-50 central-count tabulator and DS-300 precinct counter matched the test deck in each test and that machine reports showed 100% agreement with the test deck.

The office posted a series of unofficial results on election night: an initial posting for early voting and some absentee tallies at about 8:15 p.m., a supplemental absentee posting at 8:34 p.m., the…