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Republican officials are alleging voting irregularities in the District 18 special election, and say they plan to go to court seeking to impound all the voting machines used Tuesday.
Democrat Conor Lamb of Mt. Lebanon holds a slim lead over Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone of Elizabeth Township. With some absentee ballots still out, his lead is a few hundred votes out of more than 200,000 cast in the district formerly held by Republican Tim Murphy.
The seat had been safely Republican for more than a decade and national Republican organization spent millions supporting Mr. Saccone. But Mr. Lamb mounted a strong challenge and remained ahead in the vote count Wednesday morning.
A Republican source familiar with the campaign said that the GOP planned to petition for the voting machines used in all four counties to be impounded, pending a recount.
It is not yet clear where such a petition would be filed. But Republicans are investigating a number of purported Election Day irregularities including problems with the machines, voters being told to go to the wrong polling places, and Republican attorneys being barred from overseeing the counting of absentee ballots in Allegheny County.
County spokeswoman Amie Downs said that on Election Day there had been discussions with Republican attorneys about their ability to oversee the vote-counting process. Under the state Election Code, she said, such observers must have a signed authorization from the chair of the county committee. "They didn't produce that until the very end of the evening, when the ballots had already been scanned," she said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-gearing-up-to-challenge-district-18-results-impound-all-voting-machines-used-in-special-election/ar-BBKd3YC?ocid=spartandhp
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)Obviously the hack wasn't sophisticated enough to account for a blue wave.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)take it to court like they did in Coleman vs. Franken. Franken wasn't seated in the us Senate for 8 months. By then, he'll have to be elected again.
spanone
(135,636 posts)Cha
(295,926 posts)Conor WON!!
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)They seem to like tactics like that - like in football where someone on the defensive line will jerk just enough to cause someone on the offense to move before the snap, and that garners a false start penalty for the offense.
I.e., they force a situation like this so they can challenge it. They basically did that with the redistricting order from the state Supreme Court - refusing to comply but then suddenly only half-doing so at the last minute and then challenging the whole process afterwards.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)they'd back down in a hurry, but it actually would be good if they agreed.
yardwork
(61,418 posts)McCrory tried this when he lost in NC. It backfired.