A Democrat who led the Jan. 6 panel’s attacks on former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud cast doubt herself on Ohio’s 2004 presidential election and demanded that state officials investigate reports of voting machine irregularities.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat, wrote Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell following the 2004 election expressing concern about “a troubled portrait of a one-two push that may have well altered and suppressed votes.”
In that race, Republican President George W. Bush defeated then-Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, but Ms. Lofgren and some House Judiciary Committee colleagues demanded rebuttal of anecdotal allegations that machines were switching votes.