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The Palm Coast Canvasing Board met this morning for the last time to conduct a legally-required manual count of one precinct’s total votes in the July 27 special election for mayor. As expected, the audit produced no discrepancies. “The difference across is zero,” Palm Coast City Clerk Virginia Smith said at the end of the audit, meaning that the machine-count result and the hand-count matched, 100 percent. The count had taken less than an hour. The board consists of Smith and David Valinski, with alternate member Michael Martin. Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart is not a member of the board, but her office ran the election, the office has custody of the ballots until May 31, 2023–when they will be destroyed–and Lenhart sat with the board to provide any needed guidance. ....