Indiana Gives Up on House Election Fight
Indiana, failing to obtain a Supreme Court hearing, will not pursue its charge that the House acted improperly by seating a Democrat instead of a Republican in a close election, the state attorney general said Tuesday.
The high court, without comment, refused to hear a direct appeal from Indiana in the dispute over who won last November’s election in the 8th House District in southern Indiana.
State officials twice said that the winner was Republican Richard D. McIntyre, but a House-supervised recount, the first in 24 years, concluded that first-term Democrat Frank McCloskey had won by four votes, 116,645 to 116,641.
House Republicans staged a mass walkout on May 1, when the Democratic-controlled House voted to seat McCloskey.
Indiana Atty. Gen. Linley Pearson said that the case is closed, although the state could have filed a complaint in lower federal courts.
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