Posted on 05/25/2022 11:43:41 AM PDT by lightman
The latest snapshot of the halting count in Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senate primary shows Dr. Mehmet Oz maintaining a 902-vote lead over David McCormick.
But with about 10,000 potential votes left to count across all parties and an automatic recount ordered, McCormick’s campaign has shown no appetite for making a concession now.
All 67 counties were required to make a report to the Pennsylvania Department of State of their unofficial counts by the close of business Tuesday, along with an accounting of what tallying is still left to complete. Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman said Wednesday those reports showed Oz leading the race by less than one-tenth of a percentage point, with 419,365 votes, to McCormick’s 418,463.
The 902-vote lead is the most important thing to Oz, the 61-year-old heart surgeon-turned-daytime television star who has described his Senate run as the product of a decision to move from being a prominent commentator on problems to taking a role where he can work directly on fixing them. Oz, a longtime New Jersey resident, gave up his daily show and moved to Pennsylvania to make his race.
But just as importantly to McCormick, State officials stated there are still potentially several thousand Republican primary votes left to count - including mail-ins, civilian overseas and military ballots, and provisional votes - leaving the former Wall Street hedge fund manager a glimmer of hope that there’s some room for the final result to flip.
McCormick’s campaign is also trying to grow the pool of uncounted votes. Its attorneys have gone to state appellate courts this week for orders requiring all county election boards to include 860 mail-in ballots that were returned signed but undated into the count, reflecting a federal court decision last week in an unrelated Lehigh County judicial race from 2021.
McCormick’s team reasons that any growth in the mail-in ballot count could be helpful in its quest to catch up to Oz since, through Monday night, McCormick was leading oz in that category of votes, by 32.1 percent to 23.1 percent. At that rate, McCormick hypothetically stands to gain about 90 votes per every 1,000 added to the count.
But at this stage, it did not appear there were enough mail-in votes left in the count for McCormick to close that gap.
The eventual winner of the GOP race will advance into what is expected to be a hotly-contested and nationally-watched general election campaign against Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who easily won the Democratic Party nomination for the seat being relinquished by incumbent U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey.
First, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth, not a state. We have no “state law”. We have Commonwealth Law.
Secondly, the courts have muddled the issue of undated ballots received on election day.
One side says they do not need to be dated as they arrived in time.
The other side says the rule says they must be dated on the outside or not counted.
This will end up in the courts and the PA Supreme Court (Soros Court) will rule that no date is required.
This will give McCormick the win easily.
Congratulations Senator Fetterman.
Yup, the Pol Pot[head].
I guess that is a good thing.
“ McCormick should do take the honorable path:
Decline the recount and concede.”
He’ll never do that. Both he and Barnett have proven to me, with their actions after the election, that I was correct in voting for Oz.
“First, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth, not a state. We have no “state law”. We have Commonwealth Law.”
OMG a word Nazi!!!!!!
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