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'19 Special & '20 Congressional Election Thread

There are 4 house races that have not yet been called.

The closest one is in Iowa's 2nd District. The Dem incumbent retired, and the race is between Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart. Miller-Meeks was ahead slim margin requiring a recount. The Dem has been gaining votes during the recount, and the Miller-Meeks margin is down to 36 votes. Due to the razor thin margin, the race is going to come down to interpretations of ambiguous ballots. Prolonged litigation is likely.
 
Pilchard said:
There are 4 house races that have not yet been called.

The closest one is in Iowa's 2nd District. The Dem incumbent retired, and the race is between Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart. Miller-Meeks was ahead slim margin requiring a recount. The Dem has been gaining votes during the recount, and the Miller-Meeks margin is down to 36 votes. Due to the razor thin margin, the race is going to come down to interpretations of ambiguous ballots. Prolonged litigation is likely.
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Miller-Meeks's daughter actually went to Wake. Pretty sure she was a cheerleader.
 
They completed the recount in Iowa's 2nd District, and Republican Marianette Miller-Meeks margin over Dem Rita Hart is 6 votes. There were more than 394,000 votes cast. Looking like the closest congressional race since the 1974 Senate Race in New Hampshire which had two recounts: the Republican and Dem candidate traded leads in the recounts (both by less than 10 votes); and ultimately the US Senate was asked to review 3,500 questionable ballots; which naturally resulted in months of wrangling; ultimately, the Senate held the seat open, and the NH governor called for a special election which the Democratic candidate won by 27,000 votes.

Here is a link to a story on the Iowa race: https://www.wqad.com/article/news/verify/verify-iowa-second-congressional-district-history/526-df0707b7-6b4a-438f-8be5-8e9bc60ea2a4

Here is a link to a recap of the 1974 NH Senate race: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Closest_election_in_Senate_history.htm
 
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