Republican Wins Idaho House Seat After a Computer Glitch Is Corrected
November 12, 2022 | Idaho
Due to a technical error, the Democrat candidate for Jerome’s House seat in Idaho was initially thought to have won. After it was corrected, the seat in the House was declared for a Republican candidate.
Enough votes to change the projected Idaho election results were missed in a glitch.
After more nearly 700 votes were added to the tally on the state website late Thursday morning, Chief Deputy Secretary of State Chad Houck announced that Republican Jack Nelsen, not Democrat Karma Metzler Fitzgerald, had won the House seat representing Jerome, Blaine, and Lincoln counties.
Idaho News reported.
Houck said Jerome County officials noticed vote totals on the secretary of state’s website didn’t match their count for the district — District 26. Houck said his office worked with county officials starting Wednesday and discovered a glitch that prevented early votes in the county from being tallied on the state’s website.
The change gave the win to Nelsen by 83 votes — 7,916 to 7,833. Initial results had him losing by several hundred…. (Excerpt from The Gateway Pundit)
