A U.S. House Committee has voted to review Democrat Rita Hart’s challenge of the outcome in Iowa’s Second Congressional District race. State officials declared Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks the winner — by six votes – in last November’s election and Miller-Meeks has been a provisional member of the U.S. House since January.  Miller-Meeks had asked the committee to dismiss Hart’s petition, but majority Democrats tabled that request Wednesday

Zach Meunier, the campaign manager for Hart, issued a statement on Wednesday, saying that she will be ahead by nine votes if the 22 ballots they claim were legally cast and not counted get added to the result.

“At least twenty-two Iowans’ legally-cast ballots still have not been counted due to a string of errors. We are glad to see the house Committee on Administration taking the next step towards ensuring that every legally-cast vote is counted in this race and that all Iowans’ voices are heard,” Meunier said, in the statement. “Every legal voter in this country has a right to have their ballot counted and the remedy here is clear — count the ballots.”

According to Congressman Rodney Davis, the committee’s top Republican, “Our committee should not be moving forward with overturning our colleagues state certified election.”

Alan Ostergren, the attorney for the Miller-Meeks campaign, says Hart “hopes that her fellow Democrats in Washington, D.C. will ignore Iowa law and the precedents of the House to grant her the seat in Congress that the voters denied her.”