Democrats in Pennsylvania are pulling out all the tricks from their bag as they continue to defy a court order in their efforts to prevent Dave McCormick from officially taking the seat of Democratic Sen. Bob Casey who lost his bid for reelection by a narrow margin. Remember when President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans tried to draw attention to the mountain of evidence that existed to show the election in 2020 had been tampered with? He was accused of trying to overturn election results?
My how the turn tables, as Michael Scott would say.
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CNN investigative reporter Andy Kaczynski wrote on X that Democrats in Bucks County have voted to count provisional ballots in the race despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously ruling they should remain uncounted. “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” said Democratic county commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia as she voted Thursday to count ballots where voters did not submit the two legally required signatures on the outside of the ballot. “People violate laws anytime they want,” she continued. “So, for me, if I violate this law it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”
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The Philadelphia Inquirer details how state Democrats are racing to close the 25,000-vote gap that separates Casey and McCormick, a feat that will now rely on decisions by various county commissioners about how to address contested ballots. Up for grabs are around 80,000 ballots that may yet to be counted. Democrats are also acting out of expediency given deadlines around certifying the election and a looming recount.
The Democrat Bucks County Commissioners just voted to count misdated and undated mail in ballots to try and help Bob Casey and one of them straight up says that she knows it's illegal but simply does not care.
Dems are trying to steal an election in PA.pic.twitter.com/7KP4Qoy31b
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 14, 2024
On Thursday, McCormick, along with a number of his close allies, started returning fire, filing a couple of lawsuits in Philadelphia, along with Bucks, Montgomery, and Centre Counties, in order to bring the counting of unsigned ballots to a halt, as well as ballots being returned without a postdate. Those without a postdate cannot be verified to have been turned in on time.
“There is one inescapable truth to all of this,” Mark Harris, lead strategist for the McCormick campaign, went on to say concerning the matter. “When counting is done, Dave will be winning by tens of thousands of votes. It will not be close.”
“As of Friday, lawyers for Casey and McCormick have spent more than 10 hours in court arguing the merits for and against counting the contested ballots. County commissioners themselves must then meet at length to discuss a strategy for revisiting which ballots might qualify. ‘It’s not always so simple to determine when a vote is legally cast and when there’s some gray area,’ said Bob Harvie, another Democratic board member in Bucks County. In Chester County, for example, board members are wrangling over how to address provisional ballots that were accidentally cast by legally registered voters,” TPN reported.
Both sides of the battle will have to prepare themselves to have hearings before the Common Pleas Court. Democrats in the state are emphasizing that their fight against the lead McCormick has is all about ensuring every vote, every voice is heard. Eye roll here. The GOP has struck back at that notion stating some of the efforts by the Democratic party to count ballots have reached absurd proportions.
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