BREAKING A Pennsylvania court agreed Thursday night with a ballot-counting lawsuit from David McCormick, who is in a neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz:
Oz’s campaign, the Republican National Committee and the state Republican Party have opposed McCormick in court.
State law requires a voter to write a date next to their signature on the outside of their mail-in ballot return envelopes. A handwritten date on a ballot envelope plays no role in determining whether a voter is eligible or whether a ballot is cast on time. McCormick sued in state court to force counties to count the ballots, after the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled two weeks ago in a case from a local judicial last year that throwing out an undated ballot violates a voter's civil rights.The Supreme Court’s action — called an administrative stay — freezes the matter until the court can give the case further consideration.
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