Pennsylvania Democrats openly admit to counting
illegal ballots in McCormick-Casey race
Fox News ^ | November 16, 2024 | Chris Pandolfo
Posted on 11/17/2024 by MinorityRepublican
As the contested Pennsylvania Senate race barrels towards a $1 million recount, Democratic officials in a few blue counties are openly admitting to counting disqualified ballots in defiance of state law and court orders.
The Associated Press has called the race for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, who currently holds a 26,000 vote lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. But Casey has refused to concede and insisted that every vote be counted. The close margin – within one percentage point – triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law.
Yet the critical question is which votes should be counted? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results. However, Democratic officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre and Montgomery counties are ignoring that court order.
“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified. (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The problem is that once the ballot has been “counted” you cannot retrieve it and subtract it, if a later court decision ruled it cannot be counted. For example, if there is no signature on the envelope, and it gets counted by one of the counties defying the PASC, then it is separated from the envelope and becomes part of an undifferentiated mass of counted ballots. If the Supreme Court of PA restates its ruling and underscores the fact that unsigned mail-in ballots are not to be accepted, you cannot go in and find that specific ballot and back it out of the totals. I’m sure this is why they are being so brazen in deficiance of the PASC, they want the ballots to enter the mass of counted ballots, so the totals cannot be re-adjusted. Go ahead and count the contested ballot forms, BUT KEEP THEM SEPARATE AND DISTINCT from the correct and legally cast ballots, and preserve all of the physical details of the ballot (envelope, etc.) That they are not doing this - kinda gives away what is going on here. It’s Fanken v. Coleman, II.