UPDATE #2 (10:05PM): Absentee ballots have been counted

Winneshiek County voters cast 5,867 absentee ballots in this year's election.

The high number of absentee ballots forced election officials to begin counting votes at 8:00 a.m. today--and results were not finalized until 10:00 p.m.

Those results show Steve Hildebrand and Karl Jacobsen are leading in the race for WMC Board of Trustees; and that Bill Ibanez, Floyd Ashbacher, Dean Thompson, John Logsdon and Mark Kuhn are leading in races for the County Board.