As predicted, losing Democratic candidate Christine Jennings will ask the Democratic House to "investigate" the election in Florida's 13th district. David Royse of the Associated Press has the story:

The Democrat who narrowly lost to a Republican in the race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris asked Congress on Wednesday for an investigation.

The state has declared that Democrat Christine Jennings lost to Republican Vern Buchanan by 369 votes. But 18,000 Sarasota County electronic ballots did not record a choice in the race, and Jennings contends that the number is abnormally high and that the machines lost the votes.

She filed with the House clerk an official contest of the election results in Florida's 13th Congressional District.

She said she will ask Congress to consider ordering a revote if her legal challenge in Florida fails. She is seeking to obtain the programming code for the touch-screen voting machines to determine whether a bug or malicious programming could have lost votes. The state has found no evidence of malfunction.

Read the rest at the link above. Of course, there isn't a shred of evidence the "undervote" for the House seat was due to any machine malfunction. On the face of it, with both Democratic and Republican nominees for Governor having strong ties to Sarasota County and contesting that turf vigorously, one might expect a greater discrepancy between the major contest and the open House race between two lesser lights. To even suspect one Florida district would have been singled out for pre-programmed vote fraud borders on the paranoid.

Of course, as a reader commented on a previous topic, there is precedent from the early '80s of the Democratic House awarding a closely-contested race to the Democrat, even though the state had certified the Republican the winner. I seriously doubt Pelosi would attempt this now. It would poison the well for dealing with Republicans from the beginning, and Pelosi doesn't have that much wiggle room with 44 "Blue Dog" Democrats favoring more moderate-conservative policies, and 38 Congressional Black Caucus members who resent her treatment of Alcee Hastings and William Jefferson simply on the basis of their criminal behaviors.