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PA Court Denies Republican Dave McCormick’s Emergency Motion to Allow More GOP Observers to Watch Counting of Provisional Ballots
American Greatness ^ | 8 Nov, 2024 | Debra Heine

Posted on 11/09/2024 5:17:06 AM PST by MtnClimber

Republican US Senate projected winner Dave McCormick lost his challenge Friday against the Philadelphia Board of Elections and three city commissioners over the adjudication of provisional ballots in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt (R) announced on Thursday that “more than 100,000 ballots, including provisional, military, overseas, and some Election Day votes, were yet to be counted.”

According to WGAL, McCormick asked the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia to allow more Republican observers at provisional board hearings to examine ballots that share common deficiencies, such as “missing signatures on the affidavit, a provisional ballot envelope that lacks a secrecy envelope, or discrepancies where the required signature on the affidavit and the envelope do not match will render the ballot invalid and thus result in the ballot being excluded from the count.”

The suit also reportedly asked the court “to sequester and hold provisional ballots from voters who had requested mail-in or absentee ballots,” per a recent Supreme Court decision.

The Pennsylvania Court rejected McCormick’s lawsuit Friday, ruling that Philadelphia County may continue its examination of provisional ballots with the current number of Republican representatives.

“A big win for Philly voters and team Casey. A loss for the GOP voter suppression machine,” crowed Harris Campaign attorney Marc Elias on X.

McCormick currently leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey by a razor-thin margin: 48.97 percent to 48.47 percent, with over 98 percent precincts reporting. The AP projected McCormick as the winner on Thursday, but Casey has not conceded because there are still thousands of ballots to be counted, including 15,000 to 20,000 provisional ballots in Philadelphia.

McCormick is currently leading by 34,661 votes.

During a news conference Friday morning, McCormick said: “If you look at all the math, the reason the AP called it is, there’s no path for Senator Casey overcoming my lead, which is more than 32,000 votes. But there are ballots that will continue to be counted. And that lawsuit’s just to make sure that there is an adequate number of observers that are overseeing the counting process.”

Some Republicans are now taunting Casey as “an election denier” on social media.

“Old enough to remember in March when Bob Casey bizarrely accused Dave McCormick of ‘hanging out with election deniers,’ GOP strategist Matt Whitlock posted on Twitter. “Now he is one.”

The election analysts at Decision Desk HQ posted on X Friday morning that they expect to see McCormick’s “lead to grow” as Cambria County votes are counted.

Conservative pollster Rich Baris also asserted on X that about half of the provisional ballots in the Keystone State will probably fail verification.

“Provisionals counted in Bucks actually increased leads for Trump and McCormick,” Baris added. “They are more [Republican] this year.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; elias; marcelias; philadelphiacounty
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1 posted on 11/09/2024 5:17:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Only one reason they would be opposed.


2 posted on 11/09/2024 5:17:17 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is an odd situation where the Republican candidate’s lead is actually GROWING as they count more ballots. This article from yesterday says McCormick is leading by about 34,000 votes. I believe it is close to 40,000 as of this morning.


3 posted on 11/09/2024 5:24:46 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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To: MtnClimber
A small victory for the Democrat Cheat machine in PA.

No Democrat elected official should be considered legitimate in government. The entire brand is tainted by fraud.

4 posted on 11/09/2024 5:25:44 AM PST by flamberge (It turns out that you can fool most of the people, most of the time.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Many late ballots are military ballots.


5 posted on 11/09/2024 5:28:58 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Alberta's Child
Kind of like the 2016 election where Hillary surrogates forced a highly selective recount in places like Detroit.

When they started pulling the ballots out for recount in Detroit they started finding precincts that reported 2500 votes actually only has 200 ballots cast.

Bill Clinton finally stepped in put a stop to the recount real fast.

6 posted on 11/09/2024 5:31:33 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Brian Griffin

There’s also the situation with Cambria County. They had some kind of problem with their voting machines or voter registration records on Election Day, so thousands of people there had to cast provisional ballots. Trump won that county by something like a 65%-35% margin in 2020, so these can be expected to be heavily Republican votes as they are counted.


7 posted on 11/09/2024 5:33:40 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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To: MtnClimber

The cheat is on. Hopefully, Philly won’t be able to steal this one for Casey.


8 posted on 11/09/2024 5:34:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t know how the process works, but I wonder if they’re slow walking McCormick and Lake victories so they can’t vote for the Republican majority leader position.

Do senators elect get to vote on this? If so, these races are dragging on long enough to deny them that opportunity.


9 posted on 11/09/2024 5:35:26 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Brian Griffin

Watch how fast the Dumbs suddenly start paying attention to the irregularities as they consider the military ballots.


10 posted on 11/09/2024 5:36:14 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: flamberge

Once the democrats have control of the election apparatus and those that are charged with insuring its integrity, they never lose another election.


11 posted on 11/09/2024 5:38:19 AM PST by Rlsau1
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To: MtnClimber

“A loss for the GOP voter suppression machine,”

No sunshine? No transparency?
Yeah, that’s fair.


12 posted on 11/09/2024 5:38:55 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: MtnClimber; Fedora

Marc Elias ping


13 posted on 11/09/2024 5:38:56 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MtnClimber

Well it does make sense.
It harder to cheat when your victim is watching.


14 posted on 11/09/2024 5:39:20 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: MtnClimber

The cheat goes on.


15 posted on 11/09/2024 5:46:24 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like a very corrupt judge to deny such an obviously reasonable and important motion.


16 posted on 11/09/2024 5:47:18 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MtnClimber

In case you don’t know this, the Philadelphia court of Common Pleas is made up of hack judges elected in the City of Philadelphia and is a notorious part of the Democrat/ union machine.

McCormick will not win a single ruling there.


17 posted on 11/09/2024 6:05:30 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like the azho court has the steal fired up.


18 posted on 11/09/2024 6:06:28 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have the ballot counters in Maricopa County and Las Vegas sobered up yet?)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump needs to call for an audit of this Senate race as well.


19 posted on 11/09/2024 6:08:03 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: Rlsau1
Once the democrats have control of the election apparatus and those that are charged with ensuring its integrity, they never lose another election.

That has been historically true. We have passed an inflection point where it won't keep working.

The Democrats will stop cheating elections or we will have a civil war that permanently removes Democrats from the political process.

I am betting on the latter outcome. We have approximately half the population which actively wants a system that plunders the other half of the population. This is a cultural problem and does not get solved by "voting" in a democracy. The lure of "free stuff" is simply too powerful as a temptation and as a deception.

There may still be some non-violent solutions available, and I hope we can use all of them. In the end it comes down to who can maintain control of police and military forces, and whether their control is seen as legitimate.

20 posted on 11/09/2024 6:29:33 AM PST by flamberge (It turns out that you can fool most of the people, most of the time.)
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