Republicans challenge special election results

and Mr. Lamb will soon be sworn in as a congressman.

“Ithink when the process is all done, this will all go away,” Mr. Doyle said. “Right now I just think some people have hurt feelings and they want to provide some justification for whathappened.”

Mr. Frank said the Republican Party “received numerous complaints about voters not appearing on the voter rolls, and being denied the ability to cast a provisional ballot at their polling place.”

He said the department’s website “errantly directed voters to polling places matched to their address under the recently imposed Pennsylvania Supreme Court map. ... Since election day, we have heard from potential voters in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District who attempted to vote but were informed that they did not live in the district any longer.”

The state Supreme Court in January tossed out the previous congressional map on the grounds that it violated the state constitution because it had been gerrymandered to favor Republicans. The court ordered that this special election should still be conducted using the previous map. Pennsylvania’s current congressmen were elected using the prior map.

Ms. Murren said the polling locator on the department’s website doesn’t tell people what congressional districts they live in. It only shows their polling place, which remains the same regardless of which congressional map is used, she said.