Trump campaign official Chris Lacivita said Pennsylvania election officials have been reporting incorrect dates and dates after the state Supreme Court previously ruled that mail-in ballots should not be counted. He predicted that he would be sentenced to prison for counting mail-in ballots that had not been counted.
“They will go to jail,” LaCivita, President Trump’s co-campaign manager, posted on his X account Sunday night. “Please rely on me.”
LaCivita was responding to a social media post promoting a Washington Free Beacon article detailing Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's endorsement of Democratic Bucks County. Last year, Diane Ellis-Marseglia was the commissioner. She and other Democratic committee members in the state were campaigning for the position before voting to count the disqualified votes.
“Nobody can tell you that court precedent no longer matters in this country,” Ellis Marseglia said Thursday as she and other Democrats defeated a Republican-led challenge to the ballots that would have disqualified them. I think I know,” he said.
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Pennsylvania is in the midst of a vote recount after Mr. Casey refused to concede his race against incoming Sen. Dave McCormick earlier this month. McCormick's unofficial margin of victory is around 17,000 votes, or within the required 0.5% threshold. Under Pennsylvania law Trigger automatic recount.
“Pennsylvanians deserve to have their voices heard, and the value of someone's vote is not determined by how long it takes to be counted,” Casey said of his decision not to concede the race. I wrote an editorial defending it. “If Pennsylvanians stand in long lines and take time from work and family to vote legally, whether it's their first vote or their last, they will vote. You have the right to be counted.”
The state Supreme Court ruled ahead of the election that mail-in ballots without the required signatures and dates should not be included in the state's official vote count. But Democratic-led election boards, including Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery and Center counties, bucked the state high court's ruling and voted to include such ballots in the recount.
Pennsylvania is in the midst of a vote recount after Mr. Casey refused to concede his race against incoming Sen. Dave McCormick earlier this month. (Getty Images)
“People break the law all the time,” Ellis Marseglia said last week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “So for me, if I'm going to violate this law, it's because I want the court to take notice. There's nothing more important than counting the votes.”
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In addition to Casey's endorsement of the Democratic Party chair during last year's campaign, Ellis Marseglia and fellow Bucks County Democratic Party Chairman Bob Harvey have also donated $2,600 to Casey's campaign this year. did. The Washington Free Beacon reported.
“Pennsylvanians deserve to have their voices heard, and the value of someone's vote is not determined by how long it takes to be counted,” Casey said of his decision not to concede the race. I wrote an editorial defending it. (Mark Makera/Getty Images)
Republicans have filed a series of lawsuits over including disqualified ballots in the recount. Republican officials have filed 12 lawsuits in Pennsylvania to protect their Senate seats.
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Both the national and state Republicans have filed lawsuits. 4 counties in Pennsylvaniafollowing a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling this month, asks courts not to count mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates.
McCormick's unofficial margin of victory was about 17,000 votes, well within the 0.5% threshold required under Pennsylvania law to trigger an automatic recount. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
RNC officials disputed the idea that the Senate recount, which lasts until Nov. 26, would substantively change the outcome of the election. They point out that since 2000, there have only been three statewide election recounts in Pennsylvania, each with an average change of 393 votes, at an estimated cost of $1 million. has criticized the initiative as a waste of taxpayers' money.
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Trump campaign official Chris Lacivita said Pennsylvania election officials have been reporting incorrect dates and dates after the state Supreme Court previously ruled that mail-in ballots should not be counted. He predicted that he would be sentenced to prison for counting mail-in ballots that had not been counted. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
“Democrat officials are saying on video that they are choosing to break the law and there will be legal consequences if they do so,” a party official told Fox News early Monday.
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“The Casey campaign could stop the recount at any time,” Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas added of the lawsuit. “And it has the political effect of undermining the trust that voters have built in elections. So we need to stop campaigning and declare Mr. McCormick the winner.”
