Republican Senate primary between Mahomet Oz and Dave McCormick goes for recount

Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick are heading for recounting, separated by a very thin margin. Deputy Secretary of State Lee Chapman, acting under state law requiring a recount of elections determined within 0.5% of the vote, addressed the election authorities on Wednesday instructing the district to begin the process. He said he would issue a formal statement.

Both Oz and McCormick, who have spent $ 25 million on advertising together with the campaign since the primary last week, have shown confidence. Recently, the campaign clashed with undated mail ballots (minor mistakes by voters) over whether those ballots would eventually need to be counted. McCormick filed a proceeding on Monday to prevent certain ballots from being excluded from the count. According to the proceedings, election officials in several counties in Pennsylvania have refused to count the number of ballots received in time for the Primary Association last week, although the envelopes do not have handwritten dates. In response, Oz's campaign said McCormick's lawyer "looked like he was following the Democratic playbook." Republican National Committee chairman Ronna McDaniel said Tuesday afternoon that the RNC would intervene in the proceedings, she tweeted, "She is committed to the integrity of the election and compliance with the election law." She said, "Pennsylvania law is clear. Ballots without dates may not be counted. Changing the rules while the votes are being counted undermines the integrity of our elections and sets a terrible precedent for future elections, "she wrote in another tweet. Chapman's office quoted last week's Federal Court of Appeals ruling, stating that undated ballots should be counted in previous elections, counting falsely dated mailed ballots without dates, and the results are Advised the county to separate it from other ballots until it became more legal. "Our position is that ballots without dates and ballots with incorrect dates are important," Chapman said Wednesday. According to Chapman, there are 860 dateless ballots from 65 of the 67 counties that reported the data to the state. State election officials also said on Wednesday that about 4,000 mail ballots and 6,000 provisional ballots have not yet been counted. They did not provide a breakdown of the party. Given that the Senate and Pennsylvania's reputation for close elections is divided into 5050, the Fall Contest will be one of the hottest races in the country. The defeat of Oz, the host of the former daytime talk show, will hit Trump who gathered behind him, even though McCormick was surrounded by Trump's minions and established himself as a front runner. Trump's mid-year confirmation will be closely tracked prior to the 2024 presidential election as a sign of his influence and maintenance of power within the Republican Party.