One of the fun things about the Political left is that sometimes they get so invested in a narrative that they forget about blowback. Calling anyone who dares to challenge election results they don’t like an election denier is a great example. And these Democrats not only denied this election they were taking it to court.
Related: Priceless: Kari Lake Has 150 Examples of Election Denial by Democrats and the Media
A narrow victory by an incumbent Republican resulted in a request for a recount, which is sensible given the margin was only 23 votes. After the recount, the Democrat challenger had a one-vote margin of victory but there was a new problem. The number of ballots recounted did not match the original number of ballots cast. Republicans challenged the result and the Secretary of State called for a recount of the recount.
Democrats sued to block it and here’s where the narrative blowback happens.
Democrats responded by asking a judge to issue an order permanently banning the secretary of state from reopening the recount. They also accused Scanlan and the GOP of wanting “to conduct recount after recount until they achieve their desired result.”
I can’t count the number of races in the last few years where Democrats kept counting until their guy or gal or guygalgalguy won. It’s how they run elections, and any objection is labeled election denial. The judge agreed with the Secretary of state, and the result was a Republican victory, this time by 26 votes.
New Hampshire’s Election-denying Democrats were preparing to bring the matter before the Ballot Law Commission but then changed their minds.
Democratic attorney Bill Christie informed his Republican counterparts Sunday night that his clients, Ward 6 candidate Maxine Mosley and Senate Minority Leader Donna Soucy (D-Manchester) would not be going forward with their appeal to the Ballot Law Commission as planned.
“It appears that the Manchester Ward 6 race is over,” GOP attorney Richard J. Lehmann told NHJournal. But not before putting Granite State Democrats in the politically problematic position of trying to prevent lawfully-cast votes from being counted and echoing the “election denial” arguments of Donald Trump.
I get that they wanted the seat. NH Dems made some significant gains in the NH House but not enough to claim the majority. The Republican majority is razor-thin. One seat can change a lot from who gets elected speaker to committee chairmanships to legislative priorities. But maybe it wasn’t worth the continued degradation of a well-worn narrative.
HT | NH Insider
