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. …