A battle over mail ballots in Pennsylvania is latest example of messy disputes over election rules

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A battle over mail ballots in Pennsylvania is latest example of messy disputes over election rules
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The ballot-counting process in the race between incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick has become a spectacle of hours-long election…

'No one thinks the recount is going to change the outcome of the election,' Jeff Reber, a Republican who chairs the elections reform committee for the statewide association representing county commissioners, said. 'The real battle is which ballots will be counted because that could be a precedent-setting decision'The recount underway in Pennsylvania ’s U.S.

The Associated Press called the race for McCormick on Nov. 7, concluding that not enough ballots remained to be counted in areas Casey was winning for him to take the lead., which must be concluded by next Tuesday, Republicans have been claiming that Democrats are trying to steal McCormick’s seat by counting “illegal votes.” Casey’s campaign has said Republicans are trying to block enough votes to prevent him from pulling ahead and winning.

“Only the courts under our charter may declare a statute, or provision thereof, unconstitutional,” wrote Justice Kevin Brobson, a Republican. But it was a statement from a Democratic commissioner in Bucks County, a heavily populated political swing county just north of Philadelphia, that ignited social media outrage and threats of legal retaliation from Republicans.

“This is a BLATANT violation of the law and we intend to fight it every step of the way,” Lara Trump, President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the RNC, wrote in a post on X that received 1.2 million views.

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