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The Dave McCormick PA Senate race victory is not secured yet. It appears the DNC has brought in Democrat go-to lawyer Marc Elias to draft a challenge to the result and request a recount (link here). Long-time Dem incumbent Bob Casey, Jr. has still not conceded the election, instead a fundraising email has been sent out urging "every vote to be counted."
The state law trigger for a recount is less than a 0.5% margin. McCormick has a margin that exceeds this, but not by much. So it appears some legal wrangling is in order for the Democrats to keep Bob Casey, Jr. in office. The first step is to somehow get around the recount obstacle to get the recount going, then who knows what? Attorney Marc Elias appears to have experience with partisan fighting, so I imagine he's a good candidate to handle the task. It appears part of the legal strategy is to include provisional ballots in the recount.
On a side note, I'll re-enforce the point that PA Gov. Josh Shapiro was the state's Attorney General during the 2020 election and helped with the rule changes, along with the help of a Democrat PA Supreme Court. Shapiro and Casey Jr. also have an ally in the PA Secretary of State. So even this challenge might have teeth. The Legal soldiers and PR representatives are going to need to be deployed on the Right to head this one off at the pass.
Hopefully Dave McCormick is not thwarted in collecting his Senate seat.
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I'll say out loud what I assume many are thinking: "Wait. I thought challenging election results was now a treasonous insurrection."
I keep getting so confused about the "rules of the road" because the "rules of the road" seem to keep changing.
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I haven't seen that to be the case. The rules are quite consistent. Democrat wins, challenging election results is wrong. Democrat loses, challenging election results is the patriotic duty of all good Democrats.
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Naturally the D's choose to challenge when, according to statute, they cannot. Respect for the law only when they can use it to their advantage, otherwise laws are optional.
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A good judge should just dismiss this.
So it probably won't be dismissed.
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The first step will be to secure a judicially ordered delay to give them time to print the 150,000 ballots that will be discovered as having been uncounted.
My guess is that the Casey campaign assumed that Philly would generate far more votes than they did. Worse, Trump did better there than before.
Fortunately for Casey, Republican vote totals don't increase in a recount so if they can squeeze/invent 40,000 mysteriously uncounted votes, he could still win.
Totally respectable attorney Elias will probably look for ways to disqualify Amish registrations and ballots. And if they can reprise the patented Al "Landslide" Franken's double shuffle recount techniques, the margin can be further erased.
Hopefully, the GOP has deployed some serious legal muscle. They will need it.
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