Allegheny County update: It's all been counted, but apparently four of the memory sticks that they thought they knew where they were yesterday weren't actually there.
This seems to be quite a poor job of election administration in parts of Allegheny County. They should fix this. pic.twitter.com/mHuIzxHdYl— Yesh Ginsburg (@yesh222) May 20, 2022
Bruh and no wonder why uneducated people think elections are fraudulent, this doesn't look good.— HaleyFan (@NikkiHaleyFan02) May 20, 2022
Outright losing four sticks is... a big, big problem.— Yesh Ginsburg (@yesh222) May 20, 2022
4 of 1323.— Touch The Hot Rotor Coaching (@csmayhew) May 20, 2022
Human beings make mistakes. I'm a big defender of lots of mistakes that get made in election administration. It's a tough job, and these are volunteers.
What happened here is beyond unacceptable. I can't even begin to describe how unacceptable.— Yesh Ginsburg (@yesh222) May 20, 2022
“no wonder why uneducated people think elections are fraudulent, this doesn’t look good.—”
Us educated folks KNOW elections are fraudulent.
You know, there’s hicks and there’s HICKS
It’s still advantage Oz in the Pa’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, but McCormick hasn’t surrendered yet
Published: May. 20, 2022, 9:00 p.m.
As of 6 p.m. Friday, the Pennsylvania Department of State’s running tally of the Republican Senate vote had Oz leading McCormick by 1.079 votes out of more than 1.3 million cast. The raw vote count was 418,470 votes for Oz, to 417,391, McCormick.
The problem for McCormick, said Philadelphia attorney Adam Bonin, is that every category of votes - mail-ins, absentees, provisionals - is split seven ways in this primary field, and the actual votes cast for Oz and McCormick has been super close across the board.
“So there’s going to be some wobbling in different directions as the count continues,” Bonin, who specializes in election law for Democratic candidates, said Friday. “But you’re not going to suddenly see one of these tranches of ballots come in, you know, with a huge lead for one of them. Statistically, that’s just not going to happen.”
There’s still that recount, to be sure. Pennsylvania triggers one in any statewide race where the margin between the top two finishers is 0.5 percent or less. Here, it’s actually less than 0.1 percent.
But Jonathan Marks, the state’s deputy secretary for elections and commissions, noted in an interview with PennLive Friday that of the three prior statewide races that have gone to an automatic recount, none has seen a change in the outcome.
To be sure, McCormick was not ready to concede.