Democrats have been talking a lot these past few weeks about the sanctity of election results, but their principles on that score may be malleable based on who wins. This week a House committee took the first step in what looks like an effort to unseat the Republican Member for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional district and install a Democrat instead.
GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won the November race by 47 votes in the first count and six votes after lawyers wrangled over ballots in a recount. Democrat Rita Hart wants the House to use its constitutional authority as “judge of the elections” of its Members to impose another recount and reverse the outcome.
The last time the House reversed a state-certified election result was in Indiana’s “bloody eighth” congressional district in 1985, and the last time it replaced a sitting Member with his opponent was in 1938. In both cases the House was under Democratic control. Ms. Hart’s brief to the Committee on House Administration claims that 22 ballots should have been counted but weren’t. Ms. Miller-Meeks replied that the challenge should be dismissed because Ms. Hart declined in December to raise her complaints in a special Iowa court designed to resolve contested elections.
On Wednesday the committee’s Democratic majority sided with Ms. Hart and “tabled” Ms. Miller-Meeks’s motion to dismiss. Remarks from the committee chair, Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, suggest Democrats are prepared to see the process through to their desired outcome.
opinion Unreal that congress would even attempt this ploy.....
opinion Don't let them win.
opinion How very Trumpian of Speaker Pelosi. A Dem can lose an election, demand a recount, lose the recount and DC will try to override the state legislature that certified the election. fairfight right?
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opinion If Democrats go ahead and do this they may need that razor wire around the Capital yet..
opinion Leftists will turn over that seat, not because it has anything to do with the will of the voters, but because they can. Facists.
opinion I wonder what happened to accepting the results of the election? hypocrites
opinion Sucks when you have to reap what you’ve sown. I guess the Democrats did learn something from the last election.
opinion Obvious they are trying to draw parallels between this and Trump but the situations are so vastly different. This election was down to 6 votes, not supposed millions across multiple states. But then again there’s no room for nuance anymore.
opinion those dems still flexing their muscles. Got to get them out of the House before they completely destroy our country,
opinion If they spent as much time on 'good' legislation they,d be better off. Unbelievable. Is this jr. high school?
opinion So if a party has a majority even slim in house they intend to use that majority to overturn certified house seat elections won by GOP and declare losing DEM to be the winner. This is very troubling and likely unconstitutional. Expect court review. This is blant anti democracy
opinion Now who’s suppressing the will of the people? If you let totalitarians do this you might as well give up on free and fair elections as a concept.
opinion There's no point saying f America, because they did that for theirselves at the last election. End of.
opinion Strange, I was told that attempting to overturn a free and fair election was both a coup and an insurrection. Apparently Democrats don’t like to be held to their own standards
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opinion this shouldn’t be.
opinion Wow, somebody contesting the results of a free and fair election! How awful! Such a thing is nearly unprecedented in living memory. I am clutching my pearls in shock.
opinion Weird that your opinion page and local reporting characterize this so differently
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