Editorial: Settle disputes in Iowa

Rita Hart is under fire back home for bypassing the Iowa court system in favor of asking Nancy Pelosi to throw out the results of an election.

“Bottom line: Iowa’s congressional representatives ought to be chosen by Iowans, and when there are disputes over how the state’s elections are conducted, we prefer those issues to be settled in Iowa, not Washington, D.C.”

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Editorial: Settle disputes in Iowa
Quad City Times
December 6, 2020
https://qctimes.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-settle-disputes-in-iowa/article_eff8f815-93bc-5d06-82c0-5b1c810d4618.html

Rita Hart’s decision to go to the U.S. House of Representatives to challenge the result in Iowa’s ultra-close 2nd District congressional race is disappointing.

We wish she had gone first to the five-person judicial panel outlined in state law for such challenges. Turning to Congress was, at the least, premature.

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Meanwhile, the recount that’s taken place the past two weeks has revealed the imperfections that have always existed in running elections involving hundreds of thousands of votes.

Unfortunately, in a race this close, those imperfections are magnified and potentially decisive. An example: There is a 131-vote discrepancy between the votes tallied by the Scott County recount board and the number certified by the county board of supervisors. The Hart campaign says there are issues in other counties, too.

How are those issues sorted out? And who makes those calls?

We think it should be Iowans, not politicians in Washington, D.C.

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We are not sure how the House will resolve Hart’s challenge, which hasn’t even been filed yet. We are disappointed, however, at this turn of events. Bottom line: Iowa’s congressional representatives ought to be chosen by Iowans, and when there are disputes over how the state’s elections are conducted, we prefer those issues to be settled in Iowa, not Washington, D.C.

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