Itooks like Tacherra indeed will lose: http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/11/14/4235299/fresno-county-16th-congressional.html?sp=/99/406/263/
If Tacherra wants to challenge the results, he needs to come up with (i) a specific allegation (e.g., they let non-citizens vote, or they counted ballots that were faulty), and (ii) evidence to substantiate the allegations. He’s not going to convince 218 Republicans to seat him instead of Costa by saying “it was so close, and so many of the a sentee and provisional ballots in Fresno went to Costa, the he *must* have cheated.”
If I have this right, we will have not only not won ANY seats in CA, we will have lost the open GOP one ? Not only does this not pass the smell test, this is outrageously suspect. We had at least a half-dozen seats where the combined GOP totals in the all-party primary exceeded the Democrats. That the CA Dems have seemingly “kept counting” until their incumbents miraculously won demands an investigation by the House.
Note, too, that this also doesn’t jibe with the legislative returns, where the GOP did make gains to halt a supermajority of Dems. One doesn’t happen without the other, plus you’d think they’d be more likely to try to fix THAT from happening less so than on the federal side.