Democratic congressional candidate Rita Hart filed a notice of contest Tuesday asserting she won a contested race for a U.S. House seat representing Iowa. Hart ran for the seat representing Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Iowa’s canvassing board certified Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks as the winner by 6 votes late last month. In the new filing, Hart alleges 22 legally cast votes were not counted. If they were, she would have won. Those include 9 mail ballots in Marion County that were “inexplicably” not counted, 2 ballots cast curbside by disabled voters in Scott County, and 5 mail-in ballots cast by voters in Johnson and Scott counties that were rejected for not being “properly sealed,” according to Hart. The 176-page filing asks the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives for a full review of the race. “Everyone has acknowledged that there are uncounted votes left and after reviewing those ballots and making sure they are counted, …
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