The city expects that Scott County will provide canvassing reports no later than the morning of Thursday, November 12, 2020. These reports will be delivered via email to the council and made available on the agenda website.

The steps to canvass the results are:

• the clerk prepares a canvassing report (abstract) to accumulate results from multiple precincts; this report may be available from the state Election Reporting System (ERS);
• the canvass board publicly canvasses the election returns by reviewing the abstract and write-in reports
• the board may ask to examine summary statements before it declares the results;
• when satisfied that the abstract reports are correct, the board signs the abstracts and they become the official results;
• in the case of a tie vote, the canvassing board determines the winner by lot;
• errors by election judges in counting may be corrected by following specific procedures as prescribed by law. M.S. 204C.38; 204C.39; 205.185