McCormick and Oz joust over counting of undated ballots

[JoeOtterbein]

Politico

A federal court judgment in a related vote-counting case bolsters McCormick's standing in the too-close-to-call race.

By HOLLY OTTERBEIN and ZACH MONTELLARO

05/21/2022 06:41 PM EDT

Pennsylvania’s too-close-to-call GOP Senate race is being rocked by an obscure court case involving mail ballots.

In a letter first obtained by POLITICO, David McCormick’s campaign wrote to the state’s counties Friday and argued that they should count mail-in and absentee ballots that were submitted without dates on their envelopes.

The McCormick team cited a judgment from a three-judge panel on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals that had been issued just hours earlier on Friday. It found that hundreds of undated mail-in and absentee ballots that were received on time but were undated should be tallied in a 2021 county judgeship election.

Mehmet Oz is leading McCormick by about 1,100 votes as of Saturday afternoon, or 0.1 percentage points. The primary is expected to go to a recount, which will be triggered if the top two candidates are separated by half of a percentage point or less, unless the runner-up waves it off.

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[Hoyt]

1. Don't care about GOPers fight, but ballots that arrived on time should be counted.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If the absence of signed dates is immaterial

it kind of also implies that mailed ballots arriving after Election Day might be the same.

[pandr32]

3. They are undated ballots that arrived in time.

Not after.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Whover loses the count/recount will declare fraud.