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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Pa. GOP loudly opposed counting undated ballots, until now

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

When Philadelphia's election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed-in without the voter's handwritten date, Republicans threatened impeachment. Now a GOP Senate candidate wants counties to embrace the same approach.

In a last-ditch bid to close a roughly 900-vote gap with Dr. Mehmet Oz, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick is pressing for undated mail-in ballots to be counted. The Senate Republican primary is still too close to call, now more than two weeks after Pennsylvania’s primary election, and the mail-in vote, which has favored McCormick, could help him.

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