This week’s elections in Iowa produced a number of interesting results, but what happened in Algona is especially unusual. Ray Morgan was the only registered candidate for mayor, but a majority of voters in the north-central Iowa town wrote-in the name Lynn Kueck. Kueck, who previously served as Algona’s mayor for more than a decade, collected 761 write-in votes out of over 1,200 ballots.
“I’m very humbled that many people in Algona would write me in and support me to come back to the mayor’s office,” Kueck told Radio Iowa. “It’s an overwhelming feeling of joy. It energizes me to want to get back in the office and get back to work again.” Kueck’s return to the office comes a year-and-a-half after he resigned with little explanation. Kueck says he felt like he was doing the right thing at the time.
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