Someone recently asked about an Iowa candidate who is asking, pretty much, to have Nancy declare her the winner. Did some digging. First, I don't know why she didn't have it go through state hoops, but in digging I found some other things:
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-iowa-mariannette-miller-meeks-elections-
Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks finished ahead of Democrat Rita Hart in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District after a recount saw her 47-vote lead steadily dwindle to single digits.
The state Board of Canvass voted 5-0 Monday afternoon to certify Miller-Meeks as the winner over Hart by a count of 196,964 to 196,958.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-iowa-mariannette-miller-meeks-elections-iowa-
Iowa Democrat to challenge 6-vote loss in appeal to US House
By RYAN J. FOLEYDecember 2, 2020
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate who trailed by six votes after a recount said Wednesday she will forgo further legal challenges in Iowa and instead appeal directly to the U.S. House for additional recount proceedings.
Rita Hart’s campaign had until Wednesday afternoon to contest the election under Iowa law following Monday’s certification of results in which Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks was declared the winner of the closest House race in decades.
An election contest in Iowa would have set in motion the formation of a five-judge panel that would have been required to rule on who won the race by Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Hart’s campaign said that quick timeline would not allow enough time to review all the ballots, including thousands of unexamined undervotes and overvotes and a small number of others that were not counted for a variety of reasons.
(Why would she want to examine those and were those reported?)
https://ballotpedia.org/Recount_laws_in_Iowa
Iowa recount procedures
Automatic recount procedures-
Iowa does not require automatic recounts.
Requested recount procedures-
Any candidate may request a recount. If the margin of victory separating candidates is 50 votes or 1% of the total number of votes cast, whichever is greater, the state covers the cost of the recount.
In all other instances, the candidate is responsible for costs associated with the recount. Costs paid by the candidate are refunded if the recount changes the election outcome.
………. ( Recounts not falling under above criteria)
The voter(s) making the request are responsible for costs
In the above two instances, the recount can be requested up to three days after the county canvass. The deadline for completion is 18 days after the county canvass.
Iowa's 2nd Congressional District covers most of the southeastern part of the state including Iowa City. Appanoose, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello, Washington, and Wayne counties are included in this district.[3]
https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/covotesystem.pdf
(voting systems by county) (Sigh, wouldn't embed- this time)
Iowa City- (Johnson County)
Too long if I embed all counties in District 2, so just a sample here:
Appanoose- Precincts: 12 Dominion ImageCast Precinct v.5.0.1 US, hw version 320A
Cedar- Precincts: 12 Dominion ImageCast Precinct v.5.0.1 US, hw version 320A
Clinton- Precincts: 26 ES&S DS200 V. 2.12.0.2
Des Moines- Precincts: 16 Unisyn OVO v. 2.0
Henry- Precincts: 9 Unisyn OVO v. 2.0
Jasper- Precincts: 20 ES&S DS200 V. 2.12.3.0
Jefferson- Precincts: 12 Unisyn OVO v. 2.0
Johnson- Precincts: 57 ES&S DS200 v. 2.12.3.0
Keokuk- Precincts: 15 Unisyn OVO v. 2.0
Lee- Precincts: 22 ES&S DS200 v.2.12.0.2
Lukas- Precincts: 7 Dominion ImageCast Precinct v. 5.0.1 US, hw version 320A
Mahaska- Precincts: 11 Unisyn OVO v. 1.3
Marion- Precincts: 17 Unisyn OVO v. 1.3
Muscatine- Precincts: 23 ES&S DS200 v. 2.12.3.0
Scott- Precincts: 63 ES&S DS200 v. 2.12.3.0
Van Buren- Precincts 8 ES&S M100 v.5.2.1.0
Wapello- Precincts 11 ES&S DS200 v 2.12.3.0
Washington- Precincts 10 Unisyn OVO v. 1.3
Wayne- Precincts 4 Dominion ImageCast Precinct v. 5.0.1 US, hw version 320A
Something else popped out on that PDF of voting systems- it might not take having Dominion everywhere to throw elections, especially at the state, county, and local level. The idea may be that there was a certain percentage "fix" and then Dominion maybe had more "flexibility" in altering a percentage as needed. While some of the counties with a larger number of precincts don't use Dominion, it might not take that to make this work.
IMHO, any race that had a 5% or less margin should be audited.
And Dominion not being in all precincts, but some, could be the "flexibility" that maybe the others don't quite have- for all I know.