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Do you think the House should consider a challenge to Iowa's representative who won a squeaker by six votes?
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March 27th, 2021
The distinction drawn by Democrats compared to the ex-President’s dispute is:
The Miller-Meeks race was actually a squeaker. Trump’s loss was not.
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The fact that the Democrat (Hart) could have contested the election results in Iowa state court, but chose not to, seems relevant but is ignored by Pelosi and company. Also, the fact that the count was confirmed by a judge after multiple recounts has been ignored.
Here is the gist of Hart’s complaint: _the recount “was designed to count ballots that had already been tallied, meaning that additional legal ballots may have yet to be counted.” Does that complaint sound familiar to anybody here?
The House has considered election challenges many times; of 107 contested elections the House considered from 1933 to 2009, the overwhelming majority were dismissed, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has found. Its 2010 report said the House seated at least three challengers and declared at least one vacancy. This is from
So my question is: should the House consider the challenge?
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