Last week, David McCormick clinched a hard-fought victory over three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s Senate race. The AP called it for McCormick on Thursday, and DecisionDeskHQ called it days ago. Despite the fact that he clearly lost, Casey has yet to concede, as he and his lawyer, the infamously sleazy election fixer Marc Elias, are counting on the recount to flip the results.
As I’ve mentioned before, recounts rarely alter the outcome. That said, when recounts do alter the results, the changes conspicuously tend to favor Democrats.
Thankfully, the math isn’t on Casey’s side. McCormick leads by more than 20,000 votes, a margin far too large for even the most dubious recount plausibly to overturn.
But Casey and Elias are still trying. And Bucks County, Pa., commissioners are trying to help them by counting illegal ballots.
By a vote of 2-1, the commissioners board openly disregarded the advice of the board’s own legal counsel and disobeyed the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court ruling issued earlier this year about the counting of ballots that weren’t properly signed. […]
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