The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Republican David McCormick for U.S. senator from the Keystone State.
The state high court ruled on the recount of votes for the U.S. senator’s race between McCormick and incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey that mail-in ballots with either missing or incorrect dates are not to be counted.
The court’s ruling was a repeat of its earlier decision. Pennsylvania Democrats had been moving ahead with what was reported to be a more-than-$1-million vote recount in the race that the Associated Press had already called for McCormick.
The majority-Democrat court’s ruling appeared not to matter to Secretary of State Al Schmidt and Democratic officials in Philadelphia and Bucks, Centre, and Montgomery Counties. …
Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop emeritus of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas, expressed his hope that the approval of a series of liturgical adaptations for Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Chiapas “will encourage the process to promote similar adaptations in other Indigenous groups.” (Credit: Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas)
The body of Saint John Mary Vianney, entombed above the main altar in the Basilica at Ars, France. The face is covered with a wax mask. (Credit: Wikimedia.)