Iowa Dem loses by 7 votes; officials refuse to count 29 absentee ballots from left-leaning county

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If they can't win fairly, they'll cheat. I think it's lawsuit time.
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Democratic state House candidate Kayla Koether lost her race by just seven votes. But according to Slate editor Kavin Senapathy there are still 29 outstanding absentee ballots that officials are refusing to count.

“About 29 absentee ballots from left-leaning Winneshiek County weren’t counted. One of those was Liam’s, and he says his ballot was mailed ahead of deadline,” tweeted Senapathy. While the ballots may have been mailed by the date, some post offices didn’t postmark the ballots, so there was no verification of when the ballot was received.

“Here’s where it gets disturbing. According to @52101news (Decorah Iowa News) Winneshiek County Auditor says the 29 ballots without a postmark will NOT be included in the vote totals because of specific rules about how mailing dates may be verified,” Senapathy went on. “Meanwhile, as Liam explained to me, in neighboring, right-leaning Fayette County, ballots that weren’t postmarked were “accidentally” counted. This is against policy, but the claim is that it’s too late to do anything about it. This is some rank BS.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/iowa-democrat-loses-race-7-votes-officials-refuse-count-29-absentee-ballots-left-leaning-county/

Link to tweet

The candidates will meet on Monday or Tuesday, and each will appoint one of a three-member recount board, and these two will pick a third member. https://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2018/11/20884.html …

Please join Liam in demanding that the absentee ballots be counted fairly— the recount will likely happen in late Nov through Early Dec. Tagging in @IowaSOS #KaylaforIowa @KaylaForIowa

11:12 PM - 18 Nov 2018

[Cha]

1. KR!

[Blue_true]

2. Able bodied people mailing in ballots make it easier for republicans to cheat.

Able bodied blue voters should vote in person, early if possible.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Demand? He should sue.

What has happened to our post office? Is it too unreliable to safe-guard the sanctity of our votes?

[blue-wave]

4. Count Every Vote!!! Period!!!

[Honeycombe8]

5. I can understand the postmark rule, but only if it applies across the board.

It's expensive to take things to Court, but I'd bet a Court would rule they'd either have to include those 29 or re-count the others so they can pull those absentee ballots w/o a postmark.

[watoos]

6. Where are the Democratic lawyers? What do they get paid to do?

I just renewed my membership to the ACLU, call them in.

Signing a petition or blogging about it on social media isn't going to fix it.

If money is needed to take the bastards to court, post where I can send some.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Any military voters disenfranchised? Would not be a surprise.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. What horrifying behavior! Sounds about normal.

They need to be sued from here to kingdom come!

The dirty bastards.

[sprinkleeninow]

9. I dint look it up in my funkin wagnalls, but I think the word 'rank'

also has a definition of 'STINK'?

The pit of hell stinks.

[TwistOneUp]

10. Hear here! nt

[triron]

11. knr

[Progressive Jones]

12. Put all elections under one Federal law. nt

[JudyM]

13. And have standardized, secure equipment.