The Associated Press called the Pennsylvania Senate race on Nov. 7 for Republican David McCormick, ending Democrat Sen. Bob Casey’s long, uneventful career in the Senate. At that time, not all the votes were counted, but McCormick was up by more than 30,000 votes and, although the results were close, there was no mathematical path to victory for Casey.
But Casey refused to gracefully accept the loss and concede. As more results trickled in, the margin between the candidates dropped below a half percent, triggering a mandatory recount, as prescribed in state law.
This election law, Democrats have decided to follow.
As the loser candidate, Casey had the option of declining the recount and accepting the loss. Instead, this longtime steward of your hard-earned money has opted to spend more than $1 million in Pennsylvania’s taxpayer’s money to drag out the drama.
Before Election Day, The Federalist reported the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered that, as the state election code dictates, mail-in ballots arriving in an envelope with no date or the wrong date should not be counted for the 2024 election. The matter has been debated in the court for several years, but the court ruling gave counties a uniform way to handle the issue for the election — simply follow state law.
This election law, Democrats have decided not to follow.
In public meetings last week, county election boards in Bucks, Centre, Philadelphia, and Montgomery Counties decided to count these and other improperly marked ballots anyway; laws be dammed. By flouting the law, they hold voters in their counties to a different set of rules than the rest of the state.
This is anarchy. Democrat-led counties have changed the rules in hopes of hanging on to their candidate in Democrat strongholds.
They are compelled to pursue extraordinary measures before and after the election to set new legal precedents and tip the scales in their favor. Montgomery County Democrat commissioners started a “Voter Services Mobile Satellite Office,” in August. It is a customized van from which residents can register to vote, return completed ballots, and cure mail ballots that arrived with a flaw at the county office.
As previously reported, the van registered people at low-income housing complexes and on a college campus, where they hoped that likely Democrat-minded new voters would support candidates like Casey.
Democrats are not content with discerning voters who are smart enough, and interested enough, to register to vote and properly cast a ballot by the rules. Yet with all the handholding, Montgomery County still received improperly marked mail ballots, which it plans to count, in defiance of the state Supreme Court.
Just stop already. These are not disenfranchised voters. They are stupid. If a voter is too dim witted to follow basic instructions printed clearly on the ballot envelope, they are not intelligent enough to participate in the process.
If highly partisan elected officials can ignore laws and court orders when it is to their benefit, why should anyone follow their laws? Why should citizens pay taxes? Why should we get a dog license? Why shouldn’t we throw bricks in their windows?
The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, asked the state Supreme Court to direct county boards not to count undated or improperly dated ballots.
McCormick’s lead is now thinner than a slice of shoe-fly pie, with a .26 percent margin between the two candidates. McCormick is now 17,774 votes ahead, but the Associated Press has not blinked. It still says McCormick won, and so do other news outlets.
The Republican Party said in a media call last week that even if they lose every court battle, Casey may pick up some votes, but he still has no path to victory.
Casey has become the very thing he has accused others of being: an election denier. The only differences are the media and local election riggers are in his corner, and unlike many people who gathered at the U.S. Capitol to voice election concerns on Jan. 6, Casey will not end up in federal prison or be trapped in years of criminal scrutiny and court hearings for holding his ground.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
