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Related: About this forumHart to challenge election results with House
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/02/rita-hart-iowa-challenge-election-results-442224thanks to brooklynite who posted this in GD.
A Democratic candidate who fell six votes short of holding an open battleground congressional district in Iowa is planning to challenge those results directly with the House, placing the chamber in the highly unusual position of potentially determining the outcome of the race.
After what appears to be the tightest congressional election in decades, Rita Hart, a state senator, has decided to forgo a legal battle in her home state and will instead contest the election directly with the House Administration Committee. Iowa election officials certified Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks as the winner on Monday after a recount diminished her initial victory margin from 47 votes to only 6 votes.
The move, the aggressiveness of which has stunned some Democrats, will trigger a rarely used congressional process, which was memorably deployed to settle an election in the mid-1980s. But the stakes are high: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a severely diminished majority, which could be as small as five votes after sustaining unexpected losses last month.
But some Democrats question the optics of challenging certified election results, as President Donald Trump still refuses to concede and makes baseless claims of widespread election fraud, despite losing by much larger margins than the Iowa race.
more at link.
With only a 6 vote difference and 133 contested ballots in Scott county (contested by the 3M campaign) I see no problem with this.
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Hart to challenge election results with House (Original Post)
rurallib
Dec 2020
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progressoid
(50,747 posts)1. Hmmm
this could get ugly.
Calista241
(5,600 posts)2. On the one hand, the House is closely divided.
On the other hand, this is a bad, bad look for Dems.
rurallib
(63,201 posts)3. As more details come out it may not be such a bad look at all
Such as valid ballots not being counted.