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    How will the recount work in Pa.’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.)

    There will be a statewide recount in Pennsylvania’s nationally watched U.S. Senate contest between GOP businessman Dave McCormick and three-term incumbent Sen. Bob Casey, state election officials announced Wednesday.

    McCormick and Casey on Wednesday afternoon split by nearly 29,000 votes or less than 0.5% of the total, within the margin that triggers a legally mandated recount.

    Casey had the option of admitting defeat and waiving his right to a recount; this would cost an estimated $1 million or more in taxpayer funds. However, the Democrat refused to accept his loss and instead chose to allow the process to continue.

    Before: ‘Count every vote’: Casey still refuses to concede Pa.’s U.S. Senate race to McCormick

    “Senator Casey wants the voices of all Pennsylvanians to be heard as local county election officials continue to count votes,” Tiernan Donohue, the three-term president’s campaign manager, said in a statement Wednesday morning. “This democratic process must be allowed to operate to determine the outcome of this election.”

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

    “A recount would be a waste of time and taxpayers’ money, but that is Senator Casey’s prerogative,” campaign spokeswoman Elizabeth Gregory said in a statement. he said.

    He also touched on McCormick’s defeat in the 2022 GOP Senate primary, saying he “knows what it’s like to lose an election and is confident Senator Casey will come to the right decision in the end.”

    Casey’s campaign He suggested the Associated Press call the race early It favored McCormick and noted that other outlets had delayed announcing a result.

    They also point to the various court 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 for Casey to concede defeat. Fair Election Fund, a right-wing group, takes office run a television commercial A document that called Casey and the Democrats “sore losers” and accused them of “disrespecting our democracy.”

    “What happened to all the demands that our leaders accept the election results?” Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio posted on social media this week.

    How will a recount work in the Casey-McCormick Senate?

    According to a report, the secretary of state had to order the recount by 5pm on Thursday at the latest. state election calendar. By law, costs for races that fall within the 0.5% margin of victory are automatically recounted by states and counties.

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

    If Casey didn’t want the race recounted, he would have to notify state election officials in writing by noon Wednesday, according to Pennsylvania’s election calendar. The State Department has not received word that the Casey campaign will forego the recount, according to a spokeswoman for the office.

    The recount will begin on November 20 and be completed by November 26 at the latest.

    The next round of calculations is unlikely to change the race order. According to the Secretary of State’s Office, the 0.5 percent rule has been applied seven times throughout history, and none of the four statewide recounts have changed the outcome.

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

    Oz lost to U.S. Senator John Fetterman in the general election.

    McCormick moves on while Casey investigates the matter

    McCormick tried to revisit the election this week and traveled to Washington, D.C., for Senate freshman orientation.

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer initially refused to invite McCormick to the Senate, believing the outcome of the race was still uncertain. Under pressure from Republicans, he eventually extended the invitation to Pennsylvania’s next senator.

    McCormick posted photos with his wife in the nation’s capital; one of them stood next to the sign for the new Senate office.

    In Pennsylvania, the fight continued in the courts.

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

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

    RNC lawyers are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reverse that decision and find that the strictly enforced dating requirement is not overly burdensome for mail-in voters. McCormick’s 2022 campaign made the opposite argument, and A lawsuit was filed to count these votes..

    And Casey’s team has tried to portray a series of legal filings — one of which says the election outcome could be in jeopardy — as an acknowledgment that the results are not certain.

    “When there is a difference between GOP talking points and legal filings, rely on legal filings,” a Democratic consultant said in a social media post reshared by a Casey campaign spokesman.

    Bethany Rodgers is an investigative journalist for the USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania equity bureau.

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