The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between Bob Casey and Dave McCormick entered a recount due to a margin of under 0.5% between them, with approximately 7 million ballots cast. With certification not yet having occurred and canvassing and legal challenges of provisional and undated mail-in votes in process, Kathy Boockvar spoke with the Pennsylvania Capital-Star about the differences between Sen. Casey not yet having conceded the race vs. the refusals to concede in 2020 after the election was already certified.
“We’ve got a state statute that specifically says if a race is within 0.5% there is an automatic statewide recount, right? That is a state law enshrined by statute that has been around for 20 years,” Boockvar explained. “So [Casey] is literally just allowing the state process to happen.”
Boockvar added that “the Associated Press and others ‘calling’ of elections exist solely for the purpose of feeding people’s need for quick answers to a process that is not designed to be quick for good reasons. Pennsylvania and other states allow nearly three weeks after the election until results are certified,” she added. “And there’s a good reason for that. We want accuracy more than anything else.”
Read the full interview here: https://penncapital-star.com/election-2024/senate-pennsylvania-prepares-for-a-recount-as-casey-and-mccormick-campaigns-focus-on-ballots/