Dakota County's election results were temporarily held up Tuesday, with officials blaming the delay on technological problems.
Some of the cities and townships had modem transmission issues that delayed the results, said County Manager Matt Smith, so election workers had to physically bring memory cards to city halls or the county. He added in a statement that all of the modems were successfully tested before the election and results were in transit as of 11:30 p.m.
Results began flooding in shortly after that.
The county's results are important not just for local races but they represented a large number of voters in the highly-competitive Second Congressional District rematch between Democratic Rep. Angie Craig and Republican challenger Tyler Kistner.
Craig defeated Kistner 51.0% to 45.7%. Legal Marijuana Now candidate Paula Overby, who died before the election, won 3.3% of the vote.
In 2020, election results in the Second District race were delayed and called for Craig two days later due to the number of absentee ballots that needed to be counted that year.
