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Posted on 05/21/2022 8:17:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz slammed his primary opponent David McCormick for attempting to count undated mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania’s deadlocked Senate primary.
In a statement posted to his Twitter account, the Oz campaign slammed McCormick for “following the Democrats’ playbook,” and eroding voters’ confidence in election integrity, after it was revealed that lawyers for the McCormick campaign were pressing state officials to count the undated mail ballots.
“David McCormick has been a formidable opponent, but it is becoming obvious that he is likely going to come up short to Dr. Mehmet Oz,” Oz’s campaign manager Casey Contres said Saturday. “Unfortunately, the McCormick legal team is following the Democrats’ playbook, a tactic that could have long-term harmful consequences for elections in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a clear contrast between Dr. Mehmet Oz’s efforts to secure America’s democratic process and John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee, who doesn’t even want to require Pennsylvanians to show ID to vote. As a party, and as a people, Dr. Mehmet Oz believes we must restore faith in our government institutions.”
“Dr. Mehmet Oz continues to respectfully allow Pennsylvania’s vote counting process to take place and puts his faith in the Republican voters who we believe have chosen him as their nominee,” Contres added. “That is why our campaign will oppose the McCormick legal team’s request that election boards ignore both Pennsylvania Supreme Court and state election law and accept legally rejected ballots. If Dr. Mehmet Oz is the nominee, he would appreciate David McCormick’s support, and every other Pennsylvanian, if defeating extreme liberal socialist John Fetterman who would prove nothing more than a rubber-stamp for Joe Biden’s failed policies.”
Lawyers for the McCormick campaign wrote letters to officials in all 67 Pennsylvania counties asking them to count undated mail-in ballots, after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling ordering mail ballots to be counted in a county court election from November 2021. The Third Circuit ruled that 257 ballots thrown out in the race for Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Lehigh County should be counted, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“We trust that in light of the Third Circuit’s judgment you will advise your respective Boards to count any and all absentee or mail-in ballots that were timely received but were set aside/not counted simply because those ballots lacked a voter-provided date on the outside of the envelope,” McCormick’s lawyer said in an email to the county officials, via CNN. “To the extent you are not willing to provide this advice, we ask for a formal hearing before your Boards on this issue.”
The Third Circuit ruling further complicates an already tense conflict over mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, as the PA Supreme Court issued a complicated ruling on whether to accept or reject mail-in ballots, the Inquirer noted. Another case is currently before the Court on whether to strike down Pennsylvania’s controversial Act 77, which established mail-in voting.
The PA Senate race is still too close to call, but Oz currently holds a razor-thin lead, according to NBC News’ election results tracker. Oz leads McCormick by about 1,070 votes, less than 0.1%, with an estimated 9,500 ballots left to count. The vote is almost certain to trigger an automatic recount, which takes place if the vote differential is under half a percentage point, according to Pennsylvania law. Former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Oz, has repeatedly criticized the delays in the vote count, and called for Oz to declare victory, on his Truth Social platform.
NOW Dr Oz will talk about election fraud? Gee, thanks.
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He’s right about it being a Democrat tactic, but he was a Democrat and Turkish citizen until now, too, wasn’t he?
Candidate (s) % Votes
Oz 31.3 % 412,282 2,452 ahead
McCormick 31.1 % 409,830
Barnette 24.8 % 326,259
Sands 5.4 % 70,654
Oz leading by about 2,500 votes with over 10,000 votes still uncounted? Too close to call.
Yeah, too bad the Barnett voters didn’t listen to Trump. That would have landed Oz in the Emerald castle.
Fortunately PA is a closed primary state according to wikipedia.
So the mail in ballots may not be weighted against Oz.
And I read something tonight that said, the uncounted ballots that they are counting had to be received prior to deadline, but were just missing a voter provided date.
So maybe that shuts down the manufacture of votes.
OMG, they are actually doing this the right way.
So many people in PA are convinced that the last Election was a fraud. And they are furious.
Now, McCormick comes along and wants to do what the DIMs do all the time. Take advantage by using bogus mail-in ballots.
Normally, we just sit and take it, BUT Oz is calling it the right way.
He is saying that McCormick wants to do what the Dims do all the time. In other words, HE CHOSE THE RIGHT SOUND BITE, AND WITH JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SHOCK AND AWE THAT McCormick would “do such a thing.”
Whoever thought of this plan is genius.
Outdated count.
Current count on
https://electionreturns.pa.gov/
Oz:
31.22%
418,508
McCormick:
31.14%
417,430
Oz lead = 1078
The PA Department of State has shut down operations for the weekend.
The totals have been unchanged since 1630 Friday.
Don’t look for changes until around 0930 Monday.
Oz doesn’t get my vote no matter who he’s running against.
McCormick is going to ask for a recount like Al Franken did several years ago.
I’m not in PA.
Are you going to vote for the Democrat. Or just not vote if Oz wins the primary? Either way that’s a vote for the Democrat. And thus a vote for Democrat control of the Senate.
Keep telling me how this turd is electable.. please….
Fraud and an absolute sh1tsh@w
PA voters actually had a chance to finally affect some change to the swamp that is the GOP of PA.. but they let their abuser kick them in face yet again
Dr Oz is as American in living habits as anyone else.
I was once a citizen of India, 52 years ago. Now I am bigger MAGA and Trump fan than any living US citizen. Stop excluding or discouraging people from Republican party. GOP has been in the minority in Senate & House much longer than democrats because of stupid purity litmus tests. Democrat majority is never going to support a single conservative issue.
Learn from Ronald Reagan who said “he votes for the republican with best chance to win in general”.
RINO’s like McCormick are in the mold of Pat Toomey.
Toomey in Davos for the Globalist shindig.
The RINO’s are just Assistant Leftists when it’s all said and done.
Oz is more electable than Barnette on any day except February 29th 2022.
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