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Our two Republican Senators have an interesting way of splitting their votes. If a bill has the support of a majority of voters but is opposed by the radical right, the Senator closest to election votes for the bill supported by the majority while the Senator not near election votes against to appease the radical right. This was true of the infrastructure bill last year and the marriage bill this year.

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I know Bill Davis and Jim Hancock. Both are honorable people who would do an impartial and thorough job of counting ballots.

It would seem that an investigation into why some ballots were not accepted will most likely result in a re-education process of the electorate. One need look no further than completed work orders at the average employer to understand that failure to follow simple instructions may not be limited to the work environment.

I'd enjoy seeing pictures of ballots that were not counted. It could be fascinating.

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Absolutely. No excuse for not getting to the bottom of what happened with those absentee ballots.

I believe it's been nearly 30 years since a recount changed results by that much in an Iowa legislative race.

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My understanding is the machine jammed when all the absentee ballots were placed in to be counted all at once. I guess this is not the first time the machines have done this. Their answer was to put in just 10 at a time to solve the problem. If what I heard is correct I don't understand why they have not told us officially what went wrong. I would follow up with the supervisors who I'm sure were also asking what happened

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