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Well, we thought we’d be done. But it’s Pennsylvania, so of course this primary season had to last a little longer.
Just a bit later today, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State will give notice that the GOP Senate primary is headed to a recount. She’ll make the recount official tomorrow, and it willFormer hedge fund executive David McCormick and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz are separated by less than 1,000 votes, with Oz in front but by a margin well under the 0.5% threshold needed to avoid an automatic recount.
McCormick, in search of votes to close that gap, wants certain mail ballots to be counted despite small technical defects — a position that might seem ironic given Republican efforts to discredit mail ballots over the last few years.
But it’s worth noting that plenty of Republicans clearly prefer voting by mail. About 172,000 GOP voters cast mail ballots in last week’s primary. Far more voted in person, but that’s hardly an insignificant number. And while Democrats vote by mail in far greater numbers — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro got more than 500,000 mail votes — that’s not an inevitability. Before Trump started attacking mail ballots, Republicans in other states like Florida and Utah were known for
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