Posted on 11/09/2024 7:59:50 AM PST by nikos1121
Pennsylvania officials say there is a minimum of 100,000 ballots left to be processed after The Associated Press projected businessman Dave McCormick unseated Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) in one of the most contested Senate races in the country.
“Throughout the day, the Department has communicated with counties who continue to conduct a secure election where every eligible vote is counted,” Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt said in a Nov. 7 statement on social media platform X. “We estimate there are at least 100,000 ballots remaining to be adjudicated, including provisional, military, overseas, and Election Day votes. We urge patience as election workers continue to do this important work, especially in contests where the margins are very close.”
The current vote count has McCormick with 3.34 million votes to Casey’s 3.31 million.
The Associated Press and other outlets earlier on Thursday projected McCormick as the winner over Casey.
The news agency said it called the race because there were not enough outstanding votes from areas that Casey was winning for him to end up as the victor.
With so many ballots left to count, Casey said that he would not yet concede to his opponent.
“I have dedicated my life to making sure Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard, whether on the floor of the Senate or in a free and fair election,” he said on X. “It has been made clear there are more than 100,000 votes still to be counted. Pennsylvania is where our democratic process was born. We must allow that process to play out and ensure that every vote that is eligible to be counted will be counted. That is what Pennsylvania deserves.”
McCormick after the projected win said he was looking forward to representing Pennsylvania in the Senate.
“I am honored and excited to represent EVERY Pennsylvanian as our next Senator,” he wrote on X.
If the projected win holds, Republicans would have at least 53 seats in the upper chamber in the next Congress after spending four years in the minority.
Races in Nevada and Arizona have yet to be called.
Casey, 64, defeated incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) in 2006 and won reelection in 2012 and 2018. This year was the first time he was on the same ballot as President-elect Donald Trump, for whom a majority of Pennsylvanians voted.
McCormick, 59, tried for Pennsylvania’s other Senate seat in 2022 but lost in the GOP primary to Dr. Mehmet Oz, who went on to lose to Democrat John Fetterman.
Fetterman took to X on Thursday to say that the new race should not have been called with so many ballots left to process.
“We still have tens of thousands of votes to be counted across the Commonwealth,” he said.
Under Pennsylvania law, an automatic recount will take place if the final margin is less than or equal to 0.5 percent of the total number of votes cast.
These are NEW ballots, just being introduced to the count.
Third World level fraud.
Just my opinion of course.
Turn the machines back on!
“ McCormick, 59, tried for Pennsylvania’s other Senate seat in 2022 but lost in the GOP primary to Dr. Mehmet Oz, who went on to lose to Democrat John Fetterman.”
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Oz won the primary in 2022 because of persistent PROMOTION by the USUAL IDIOTS SUCH AS SEAN HANNITY. Bunch of fools.
These are not all ballots. Many of them are provisional and will not be counted. As far as military ballots, McCormick should do well with those.
Does anyone think they will NOT steal it?
No, it’s fact.
We have enough previous evidence to state that what you said is fact.
I don’t think that’s the case. The judge's ruling yesterday covered provisional ballots in Philadelphia, and the count I saw showed only 20,000 of them outstanding.
This is the problem with mass-mail-in ballots and “provisional” ballots that only arise due to (a) permitting late *same day in some states) registrations and (b) the screw ups caused by mass mail in balloting with folks who don’t want to mail in their ballot, so their polling place won’t let them vote in person because they had not told their county they did not want the mass-mail-in-ballot.
The entire mass mail in balloting theme is wrong and was always unnecessary. It never should have been done. There was always legitiment absentee balloting, where (a) the person had to identity why they wanted an absenteee ballot and (b) someone had to witness the absentee ballot (putting both people in legal jeaprody for any untrue statement on the application). That was always fine. Then Covid became the excuse for the unlawful Dims dream of mass mail in ballots. The whole idea was rejected by different investigative commissions in the U.S. and in Europe in the 1990s and was rejected as an opening for massive fraud.
“These are NEW ballots, just being introduced to the count.”
What is your source?
No, they aren’t new. They are provisional ballots. Not all of those get counted. Also, I have heard McCormick still has votes out in Bucks and Cambria.
Adjudicated is the operative word. This implies a democrat polling judge handles the electronic copy of your ballot and changes who you voted for.
AP News called this race for McCormick. They have not rescinded that all. So, what does AP News know that most everyone else, including most Freepers, not know?
Oh call that race for the Democrat that’s it. This is the way they cheat it’s getting tiresome and something must take place to stop this insanity. And I pray that the Republicans find 100,000 more ballots somewhere else too. Because this is the only way we’re gonna stop these bastards.
*that call
Ping.
“Does anyone think they will NOT steal it?”
So in other words Surrender Monkeys, the RNC that beat back dozens of tries at voter fraud and amassed 230,000 poll watchers and has 15,000 layers on retainer will just sit by and watch? REALLY?
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