Boone County clerk apologizes for primary election results delay

The Boone County clerk posted a public apology after a delay in releasing primary election results Tuesday night.

Taylor Burks tweeted around 9:40 p.m. that absentee totals were not adding to Election Day votes in Boone County’s first round of results.

Sorry for the delay: absentee totals were not adding to Election Day votes in our first wave of results. We’ve identified the issue with ES&S (our election software company) and results coming shortly.

— Boone County Clerk (@bocomoclerk) August 8, 2018

Burks said the issue was a result with ES&S (Boone County’s software company).

Vote totals for the county were released later updated around 11 p.m. Tuesday.