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rurallib

(63,201 posts)
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 03:44 PM Dec 2020

Hart to challenge election results with House

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/02/rita-hart-iowa-challenge-election-results-442224

thanks 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 OP
Hmmm progressoid Dec 2020 #1
On the one hand, the House is closely divided. Calista241 Dec 2020 #2
As more details come out it may not be such a bad look at all rurallib Dec 2020 #3

rurallib

(63,201 posts)
3. As more details come out it may not be such a bad look at all
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 03:06 PM
Dec 2020

Such as valid ballots not being counted.

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