GOP asks voters for Pa. voting irregularities ahead of potential challenge

[DonViejo]

BY BEN KAMISAR - 03/15/18 04:17 PM EDT

House Republicans' campaign arm is reaching out to Republicans who may have faced problems at their polling locations during Tuesday's Pittsburgh-area special election as they gather information for a potential recount.

Democrat Conor Lamb has 627 more votes than Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone as of the latest tally after the Tuesday election in the 18th District, with just a few hundred provisional and military votes left to be counted. But Republicans are preparing for a potential recount or lawsuit challenging those results. The new ad campaign is a way for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) to collect information about any potential issues ahead of those challenges.

Republicans are eager to hold off a defeat in the district, which voted for President Trump by 20 points in the 2016 presidential race. Lamb's lead and the district's apparent swing toward Democrats has been seen as a sign that Democrats could take back the House majority in November.

The GOP's outreach to voters in the district is coming in the form of Facebook ads, detailed exclusively to The Hill, targeting 200,000 Republican voters in the district with a call to reach out to the NRCC if they faced problems while they cast ballots.


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[Freedomofspeech]

1. The republicans will step forward and lie through their teeth.

This is pure bullshit.

[Iliyah]

3. Thats their intent.

I think it will backfire . . .

[PA Democrat]

2. They are going to try to steal it and have already made three allegations

all of which have been refuted by election officials.

The NRCC claims that, on some incorrectly calibrated voting machines, people tried to vote for Saccone but the machine generated a vote for Lamb.
Allegheny County said no one reported any such incident on election day.


The Republicans claim their attorneys were kicked out during counting of absentee ballots in Allegheny County.
Allegheny County said that's not true, and that as soon as those attorneys provided the required authorization, they were given full access.


Republicans claim a state government website created confusion about who could vote in the race and where they could vote.
A Pennsylvania Department of State spokeswoman told Pittsburgh's Action New 4 those claims are " absolutely not true."

http://www.wtae.com/article/republican-group-promises-legal-fight-to-contest-18th-district-special-election-results-in-lamb-saccone-race/19438681


So there were no credible allegations made to election officials on election day itself, but now they are asking people on social media for "proof" that the elction was stolen from Saccone.

Interesting that all of the claims of irregularities occurred in the only county out of four with a large Democratic majority.

[blue neen]

4. Republicans are making a mistake by keeping this race in the limelight.

It'll be reminding everyone, on a daily basis, that they lost.

The whining babies should move on.

[Brother Buzz]

6. Quoting the words of another short figured vulgarian....

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

[NewJeffCT]

5. I heard George Soros paid to bus in 100,000 MS-13 Members

from Mexico to illegally vote in PA-18. Additionally, each one was required to kill one Trump voter, I mean Saccone voter, in order to get the second half of their payment. They bulldozed right over the part of the Trump Wall that Mexico paid for on their way to Pennsylvania.

[lindysalsagal]

8. Way too droll for DU.

[left-of-center2012]

7. Some voters were turned away

I'm originally from western PA, so I read the local press there online frequently.

Some voters who live in the counties involved showed up to vote,
however they were correctly turned away because they did not live in the congressional district.

You must live in the area of the counties which are part of the congressional district.

That's probably what the GOP is hoping to use.

[lindysalsagal]

9. I haven't heard word one of any funny business.

These were red districts: Not targeted by the gop for shenanigans.