Pa’s primary election and Senate race recount are over. But as the state heads into yet another high-profile and contentious November election, officials and lawyers are warily acknowledging that it's starting to feel a bit like 2020.
Attorneys for acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman urged the court to keep the case alive and provide a final decision on undated ballots for the future.
The McCormick case “highlights the chaos that the Third Circuit has unleashed on Pennsylvania,” Republican election lawyer Cameron T. Norris wrote in a letter urging the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.Democrats — and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s Department of State, which oversees elections — argue that it only makes sense that the same logic the Third Circuit used in deciding to count them in the Lehigh County case would apply to every other race going forward.
The Commonwealth Court decision also cited a similar basis in state law: the state constitution’s guarantee that “elections shall be free and equal.”
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