The next time you vote in Mahaska County, you’ll see something new on the ballot.  At Monday’s Mahaska County Board meeting, the Board approved an official County Seal.  Mahaska County Auditor Sue Brown explains why this seal was created.

“The State Legislature had put in part of the election bill this year to put a seal on the ballots, rather than auditor’s signature.  Before it has always been an election commissioner’s signature on the ballots.  And they decided to have us just put a County seal on it, rather than a name.”

Brown says this isn’t the only Mahaska County Seal.

“We have seals in our offices.  I have an auditor’s seal, there is a treasurer’s seal. But we didn’t have a county seal.  So this is a design for a county seal that doesn’t have a specific office on it.”

The new Mahaska County Seal features Chief Mahaska standing in front of a map of Mahaska County.