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    How will a recount work in Pennsylvania’s Casey-McCormick U.S. Senate race?

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    (This story has been updated to include the latest information on the Senate recount.)

    The nationally watched U.S. Senate contest between Republican businessman Dave McCormick and three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Casey will head to a statewide recount, officials said. state election officials Wednesday.

    On Wednesday afternoon, McCormick and Casey were separated by about 29,000 votes or less than 0.5% of the total, within the margin that triggers a legally mandated recount.

    Casey had the option to concede defeat and waive his right to a recount, which would cost an estimated $1 million or more in public funds. But the Democrat, who did not recognize his loss, instead chose to let things continue.

    Earlier: ‘Count Every Vote’: Casey Still Refuses to Concede US Senate Race to McCormick

    “Senator Casey wants all of Pennsylvanians’ voices to be heard as local county election officials continue to count votes,” Tiernan Donohue, the three-term incumbent’s campaign manager, said Wednesday morning. “This democratic process must be able to take place to determine the outcome of this election. »

    In response to news of the recount, McCormick’s campaign called the Republican senator-elect’s lead “insurmountable.”

    “A recount will be a waste of time and taxpayer dollars, but that is Senator Casey’s prerogative,” campaign spokeswoman Elizabeth Gregory said in a statement.

    She also referenced McCormick’s 2022 loss in the GOP Senate primary, saying he “knows what it’s like to lose an election and is sure Sen. Casey will eventually take over.” good decision.”

    Casey’s campaign suggested that the Associated Press prematurely canceled the race in favor of McCormick and noted that other media outlets were reluctant to declare a result.

    They also point to several legal challenges filed by McCormick and Republicans as evidence that the GOP nominee is unsure of his victory.

    At the same time, Republicans are increasingly calling on Casey to admit defeat. The Fair Elections Fund, a right-wing group, began broadcast a television advertisement who calls Casey and the Democrats “sore losers” and accuses them of “disrespecting our democracy.”

    “What happened to all the demands that our leaders accept the election result?” Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, posted this week on social media.

    How will a Casey-McCormick Senate recount work?

    The secretary of state had to order a recount no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, according to a national election schedule. Under the law, races that fall within the 0.5% margin of victory receive an automatic recount paid for by the state and its counties.

    However, the losing candidate may concede and request that this second count not continue.

    If Casey did not want a recount of the race, he would have had to notify state election officials in writing by noon Wednesday, according to Pennsylvania’s election calendar. The State Department was not informed that Casey’s campaign would forgo the recount, according to the office spokesperson.

    The recount must begin on November 20 and end no later than November 26.

    A new set of tables is unlikely to change the race standings. The 0.5 percent rule has been triggered seven times in its history, and of the four recounts that have taken place statewide, none have changed the outcome, according to the Department of Justice. State.

    McCormick authorized a statewide recount in 2022 after losing the GOP Senate primary to Mehmet Oz by only about 1,000 votes. This recount cost just over $1 million, according to the State Department.

    Oz was defeated by U.S. Senator John Fetterman in the general election.

    McCormick moves on, while Casey digs in

    McCormick tried to put the election in the background this week and traveled to Washington, D.C., for his first year of Senate orientation.

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer initially refused to invite McCormick to the direction of the Senate, believing that the outcome of the race was still unclear. Under pressure from Republicans, he finally invited the senator-elect from Pennsylvania.

    McCormick posted photos with his wife in the nation’s capital, including one standing next to the nameplate of his new Senate office.

    In Pennsylvania, however, the fight continued in court.

    Last week, the Republican campaign filed several lawsuits challenging the provisional vote count in Philadelphia. A judge threw out one of them, and McCormick’s campaign withdrew the other.

    The Republican National Committee this week appealed a Commonwealth Court ruling finding that Philadelphia officials violated the constitution by rejecting mail-in ballots because they were missing or had incorrect dates.

    RNC lawyers are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to overturn that decision and find that a strictly enforced dating requirement is not too burdensome for mail-in voters. McCormick’s 2022 campaign made the opposite argument and sued to have these ballots counted.

    And Casey’s team attempted to present the series of legal documents — one of which indicated that the outcome of the election could be at stake — as an admission that the results are inconclusive.

    “When there is a difference between GOP talking points and legal documents, trust the legal documents,” a Democratic consultant said in a social media post that was reshared by a campaign spokeswoman by Casey.

    Bethany Rodgers is an investigative reporter in the USA TODAY Network’s Pennsylvania capital bureau.

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