House Dems Consider Panel to Decide on Seating Two GOP Winners
By Mark Tapscott
December 14, 2020 Updated: December 14, 2020
Election officials in three New York counties are recounting contested ballots Monday in the contest between incumbent Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.) and former Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), the woman he defeated two years ago.
Brindisi won with a little more than 1,200 votes over Tenney in 2018 in the upstate New York congressional district, but she has a 12-vote advantage in the 2020 rematch. A judge ordered the recount Friday after 55 previously uncounted ballots mysteriously appeared.
Among the observers of the recount is an aide to House Committee on Administration Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), whose panel has jurisdiction over federal elections.
The aide’s presence at the recount is a sign of interest among House Democrats in potentially refusing to seat Tenney and Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who was certified by election officials as winner by six votes over Democrat Rita Hart in Iowa’s second district.
Democrats had expected to gain seats to strengthen their House majority, but instead lost at least 10 seats, leaving them with an 11-seat advantage. Should Miller-Meeks and Tenney both be seated, the Democrats’s majority would be down to nine seats.
Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution makes Congress the final arbiter of who will be accepted as duly elected or appointed members. Lofgren is reportedly considering Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who was an early advocate in 2017 of impeaching President Donald Trump, to head a panel to recommend which candidate should be seated in the Iowa contest.
more
https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-dems-consider-panel-to-decide-on-seating-two-gop-winners_3618270.html
