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A Democratic official in Bucks County, Pennsylvania is facing calls for her arrest following a brazen defense of her vote to defy a court order and count questionable mail-in ballots in the contested U.S. Senate race. Diane Ellis-Marseglia, one of three commissioners who oversee election proceedings for the suburban county north of Philadelphia, told reporters last week that a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court invalidating certain absentee ballots “doesn’t matter” and that local election officials should count them anyway. The defiant stance comes as Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is grappling with a last-ditch recount effort despite trailing Republican Dave...

Before the Nov. 5 election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated. Yet elected Democratic officials in Philadelphia and three other counties — Bucks, Centre and Montgomery — voted this week to defy these and other court decisions at the request of lawyers for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who trails GOP challenger Dave McCormick by about 24,000 votes, with almost all of the roughly 7 million ballots cast having been counted. These Democrats’ decisions will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, but the mere attempt to...