Posted on 05/24/2022 12:52:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
One week after the Pennsylvania primary election, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, maintained a nearly 1,000-vote lead on his opponent, establishment-endorsed candidate David McCormick.
As of Tuesday morning, 99 percent of the votes from the Keystone State’s May 17 election were counted. All of the counties’ unofficial vote tallies, including the remaining one percent, are due to the Pennsylvania Department of State by 5 p.m. on Tuesday where they will be reviewed for an automatic recount.
Oz has carried the lead for the last seven days, but Pennsylvania’s dragging primary election results have been deemed too close to call. Regardless of the outcome of the Republican showdown, Pennsylvania’s dawdling election tally system requires serious attention and reform.
Pennsylvania is a big and important state whose elections often capture the curiosity of the nation. Yet, between mail-in ballots and glitches, the state is still struggling to define an election day process that ensures votes are legal and expeditiously tabulated.
While other states release their results on election night, Pennsylvania routinely opts to prolong counting for days and days, something that polling strongly suggests undermines the public’s trust in elections. And that’s just for a primary election. Imagine a presidential election coming down to the wire and taking this long.
Without a principled and structured outline for counting conduct, confidence in elections plummets and people can use delays to their advantage. Take the chaotic Iowa caucuses in 2020 as a prime example. After serious snafus and errors, Democrat voters were left for days without knowing who their party’s frontrunner was.
Internal numbers from Bernie Sanders’ campaign suggested he was in the lead. Pete Buttigieg quickly countered with his own set of triumphant numbers. While the elections system in Iowa scrambled to determine a winner, the two candidates and establishment Democrats fought to control the media’s attention and favor.
The same could be said about Pennsylvania’s week-long counting affairs. While voters anxiously await results, McCormick is asking that mail-in ballots be counted even if they have not been dated by the voter, as required by law as part of a testament of authenticity.
To ensure that Americans trust our democracy, which so many politicians on both sides of the aisle say is regularly threatened, we must create and rely on a system worth of trust. Waiting an entire week to hear the results of a primary election simply isn’t that system.
Instead, Republicans should rally around ensuring electoral votes are tabulated securely and quickly in a way that bestows voters with confidence.
we all know how honest PA elections are
Trust the plan...
Elections are basically a joke. I say, tally the votes received. Once you know how many votes then start counting. As it stands there always seem to be an unknown number of votes outstanding which just means someone is cheating. Also, vote on one day, no mail in votes. Require an ID that proves you’re eligible to cast a ballot. Its all a joke now. Fake elections
I’d rather have Dr. Oz than that hedge fund guy, whose likely running in order to create laws that favour him.
Deadline? I thought they were just counting until they got the results they wanted.
In 2016, I forget which state, maybe Wisconsin, but one of the country clerks in a big GOP country held their vote totals till late at night, purposely to not let the big rat city officials know what the “margin of cheat” was. I was like “Yeah! Finally our side is playing the game smart.”
The directions for the ballot are in black and white: “Sign and date or your ballot will NOT be counted.”
Which Tuesday at 5pm ???
Today ???
If theres no change in the lead in another hour does Oz win even though they never counted all the votes ???
Is that legal ???
Well that's racist.
“McCormick is asking that mail-in ballots be counted even if they have not been dated by the voter, as required by law”
Had no dog in this fight, but now Im against McCormick
Which Democrat will win in the fall?
No this is just the Republican primary votes they’ll mess with the final election in Nov when the winning R goes up against the winning D ...
Yes
Seems like McCormick wants to count until he’s found enough votes for him to win.
Dr Oz is not perfect but I am pulling for him
I dont like the idea that McC wants to count the undated ballots ...
1002 vote leade for Oz as of 10 minutes ago.
Neither does the PA GOP or the RNC. Both have come out and said those ballots should not be counted.
Explain why there isn’t a runoff between Oz and the other guy, neither got 50%, is this different in PA?
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