Democrats admit they broke the law to overturn McCormick’s victory over Casey in Pennsylvania Senate race

Pittsburgh and Bethlehem, PA – Democratic county officials admit they broke the law to overturn Pennsylvania’s Senate election Losing Senator Bob Casey,

“I think we all know that court precedent in this country doesn’t matter anymore,” said Bucks County Commissioner Dianne Ellis-Marseglia. Sign in one of the two required boxes.

“People break laws whenever they want,” Ellis-Marseglia said. “So for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want the court to take notice. “Nothing is more important than counting the votes.”

As Democrat Casey refuses to accept and hope a details The race, which was called more than a week ago for Senator-elect Dave McCormick, will be overturned, with Republicans alleging that the Dems are also violating a Pennsylvania Supreme Court order barring undated ballots and ballots from unregistered voters on Election Day. won’t be counted out – though he’s confident the businessman and combat vet will keep his win despite the legal hassles.

“When the count is complete, Dave will win by thousands of votes,” McCormick campaign chief strategist Mark Devin Harris said of the ongoing count, which narrowed the GOP lead to 22,000 votes.

“Bob Casey has no way of staying ahead in the recount,” Harris said. He said the burden of proof is on the Casey campaign to “show the real math” on how it can close the gap to Pennsylvania taxpayers to justify paying at least $1 million for the recount, which is necessary because McCormick’s lead is less than 0.5 points – because the outgoing senator can cancel it out by admitting he lost.

McCormick and his GOP colleagues have accused Democrats of illegally trying to count “votes of unregistered voters.”

“I’m very troubled by the efforts,” Harris said, adding that Casey’s attorneys are appealing to county election boards to remove potentially thousands of votes from provisional ballots after their registration was not verified on Election Day. To be counted as.

“No one is trying to count the votes of persons who were not registered. That is absolutely false,” Casey campaign attorney Adam Bonin told The Post.

“This is a blatant attempt by the GOP to lie and divert attention from their efforts to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians by throwing out the votes of registered voters.”

The Post obtained documents showing appeals filed by the Casey team to challenge the rejection of ballots from 595, 310 and 591 unregistered voters in Lancaster, Lackawanna and Montgomery counties, respectively.

Lackawanna’s appeal states, “The Casey campaign challenges the rejection of provisional ballots based solely on the failure of Board staff to locate voters’ names on registered voter lists,” arguing that the Board of Elections does not have the voter’s names in the state’s database. May fail to identify eligible voters. Voters may have moved or their registration may be pending and potentially canceled.

McCormick campaign attorney James Fitzpatrick clapped back: “There is no legal or historical precedent for counting votes from unregistered voters in Pennsylvania,” he said, promising to open lawsuits against election boards that would “legalize this frivolous argument.” Are.”

“I don’t recall any previous challenges asking the Board of Elections to count provisional ballots for voters who did not vote,” Philadelphia County Republican Commissioner Seth Bluestein told The Post after working for the board for 13 years. which are not registered.”

Democratic lawyers withdrew the challenges Friday in Philadelphia after they failed to provide a single voter who should have been registered.

McCormick’s team is also trying to overturn the Bucks County Board of Elections’ “surprising decision” to count 405 undated or misdated ballots.

The joint lawsuit — which McCormick filed with the Pennsylvania GOP and the Republican National Committee — alleges that Tuesday’s board decision is “legally wrong” and an antitrust Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision Which just two weeks earlier had prevented Philadelphia County from counting undated ballots.

Fitzpatrick said Casey won several counties – including Center and Philadelphia in addition to Bucks – that either voted or publicly stated their intention to count undated ballots in defiance of the high court’s ruling.

“We’re just asking them to follow the clear decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court,” Fitzpatrick said during Thursday’s call.

The RNC and the Pennsylvania GOP are separately appealing to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of undated ballots. All 67 counties of Pennsylvania,

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley criticized Casey for using “scam lawyers” and “anti-Democratic schemes” to “take back the Senate seat he lost decisively”.