This race could be decided in court or perhaps they literally draw a name out of a hat. Could things get any weirder this year?
We all know how this and NY-22 will end up.
The results of this race determine if the IA House delegation is 3:1 R:D or 2:2. While the Rs hold a significant advantage in state delegations versus the Ds, 27:19, should the Presidential election go to the House, that extra R vote gives a little bit more of a safety net. It can’t go for the Ds either way, just be R or neutral.
There’s still a whole month left in the year.
Brindisi campaign says he’s taken lead over Tenney in NY22 race
I wish the Republicans would’ve scrutinized the Nebraska 2nd District vote a little closer. The Republican House candidate won by 5% but Trump lost the same district by 7%?? Likely fraud in that Omaha district, which cost 1 electoral vote. Which is HUGE, because all Trump would need now is PA and GA to make it a 269-269 tie and go to the House where he wins.
Likely will need a court ruling. Should throw out the recount results in Scott County as Hart is cheating against specific and correct legal advise from our SOS. Iowa recount law is that all counties, of any size, get recounted by 3 people, 1 for each candidate and third they agree on. They are allowed to recount any precinct entirely by hand or entirely by machine, their choice as which. Absentee votes are collectively considered one precinct. They can’t combine machine and hand counting and when Hart proposed to do just that that SOS said NO! Well they’re doing it anyway in Scott County (Davenport), the largest in the district. 60+k absentee votes there. What they want is to find some previously rejected absentee votes and hand interpret ‘voter intent’ into Hart votes. The pile is too big for one group of three to get through all of it by hand so they can’t identify ballots flip that way. But the optical scan machines used Iowa are capable of identifying ballots they can’t count. Put in 60k, get out a couple hundred that aren’t counted and flip enough of them. Under the rules if counted by machine they should stay uncounted, but reportedly Scott County has created 30+ votes just that way. It hasn’t reported formally so the total above doesn’t reflect that. I presume a similar theft is being tried in Johnson County, the next biggest, where Hart won by 30k in the initial count.
Have the Democrats ever lost one of these super close races? Seems like they always know where to find a trunk load of ballots with 90% of the votes for their candidates.