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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 07:06 PM Mar 2018

GOP gearing up to challenge District 18 results, impound all voting machines used in special electio

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

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GOP gearing up to challenge District 18 results, impound all voting machines used in special electio (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2018 OP
impound? no, reprogram Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2018 #1
Then they will take a page from the Minnesota GOP s playbook and sinkingfeeling Mar 2018 #2
these fuckers are so predictable....hate them with the light of a million suns. spanone Mar 2018 #3
Get Over IT, Government Of Putin.. Cha Mar 2018 #4
"They didn't produce that until the very end of the evening" BumRushDaShow Mar 2018 #5
Sorry rethugs but football season is over. nt ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #6
Yup. BumRushDaShow Mar 2018 #7
dems ought to tell them we'd agree to get rid of the machines completely for the next election. TheFrenchRazor Mar 2018 #8
Go right ahead. Keep this in the news. yardwork Mar 2018 #9

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
2. Then they will take a page from the Minnesota GOP s playbook and
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 07:42 PM
Mar 2018

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.

BumRushDaShow

(127,312 posts)
5. "They didn't produce that until the very end of the evening"
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 07:49 PM
Mar 2018

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.

 

TheFrenchRazor

(2,116 posts)
8. dems ought to tell them we'd agree to get rid of the machines completely for the next election.
Wed Mar 14, 2018, 08:26 PM
Mar 2018

they'd back down in a hurry, but it actually would be good if they agreed.

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