Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — It was early Wednesday morning, about 3-a.m., Nov 7, 2012) before races in Barnes County, and the District 24 legislative races had final totals.

Barnes County Interim Auditor, Julie Mindt says a Valley City precinct had a discrepancy in ballots matching the poll books.

It’s possible that ballots may have been mixed with other precinct ballots, or added into absentee ballots, or had gotten jammed.

There were no glitches in the counting process.

She adds that the vote canvass will be Tuesday November 13, 2012, and at that time it should be determined where the four ballots in question should end up.

Officials are still looking into a possible recount in the District 24 House of Representative race.

Unofficial vote totals have the top three voter-getters within a few votes of each other.

Muscha: Barnes County 2393 votes, Ransom County 620 votes, Cass County 241 votes for a total of 3254 votes or 26.11%

Kiefert: Barnes County 2741 votes, Ransom County 284 votes, Cass County 227 votes, for a total of 3252 votes or 26.09%

Buhr: Barnes County 2514 votes, Ransom County 476 votes, Cass County 207 votes for a total of 3197 votes, or 25.65%.

Meanwhile Peterson’s vote totals were 2726 votes or 21.87% of the vote.