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  Ask Cindy Siegel, chair of the Harris County Republican Party, why there was a blue wave last November, and she'll tell you the elections weren't fairly run. She points to problems on Election Day, notably shortages of paper ballots, which she claims hurt Republican voters.
  "We believe that based upon voters being turned away in Republican stronghold areas like up in the north and northwest, that these areas that we know for a fact that those people would probably be voting for Republicans," Siegel said. 
  Twenty-one candidates are now challenging their losses — the 22nd, Mike May’s challenge to State Rep. Jon Rosenthal, was dismissed by House Speaker Dade Phelan shortly after the start of the 88th Texas Legislature.
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  Would new elections make a difference? Odus Evbagharu, chair of the Harris County Democratic Party, doesn’t think so. He said his side won not because of any political fix but because they held together a broad coalition of Latino voters, African American voters, Asian American and Pacific Islander voters, LGBTQIA voters, and organized labor.
  "We're up against a bunch of sore losers," Evbagharu said. "They spent $25 million, and some folks say that it’s higher than that, to defeat us here in Harris County. And when you have donors and investors who have spent that much money and their return on investment didn’t really show anything, I’m sure you’ve got to account for something, and the easy thing for them to do, because it’s been a part of their playbook since a certain person was president, is to feed into the Big Lie and feed into election denialism."
context: "We would have won if we ran the election competently" is not the checkmate republicans are hoping it is