{"id":1498395,"date":"2022-05-31T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498395"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:14:57","slug":"pennsylvania-court-hears-arguments-that-could-decide-oz-mccormick-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-court-hears-arguments-that-could-decide-oz-mccormick-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Court Hears Arguments That Could Decide Oz-McCormick Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-court-hears-arguments-that-could-decide-oz-mccormick-contest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court heard arguments Tuesday from lawyers representing Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick \u2014 who disagree on whether the Republican Senate primary election recount process should consider undated mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by fewer than 1,000 votes. The Pennsylvania Department of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pa-republicans-wont-know-who-their-senate-nominee-is-for-at-least-another-two-weeks-commonwealth-says\">ordered a recount<\/a> in accordance with commonwealth law, which mandates recounts when candidates finish within 0.5% of one another.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disenfranchising-these-voters-mccormick-sues-pennsylvania-election-boards-to-count-undated-ballots\">sued in Pennsylvania court<\/a> after the primary race to make county election boards tally undated mail-in ballots. Both candidates\u2019 legal teams presented their cases before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcCormick, citing a recent opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, says the state\u2019s current practice of rejecting them is arbitrary and done under a rule that serves no legitimate purpose in determining the eligibility of the voter,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/live\/pa-republican-senate-primary-recount-results-mehmet-oz-david-mccormick-20220531.html\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> reported. \u201cMcCormick has generally outperformed Oz in mail voting and he hopes that counting the roughly 860 undated mail ballots statewide can help him make up his deficit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has sided with the Oz campaign\u2019s position in similar past cases, according to the outlet. \u201cBut it will be interesting to see whether the Third Circuit\u2019s opposite stance on the issue influences its thinking going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some county boards \u2014 including those overseeing the Lancaster and Cumberland county elections \u2014 plan to start tallying by Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/more-pennsylvania-counties-to-start-recount-in-republican-us-senate-race\/40144442#\">WGAL<\/a>. All counties begin counting by Wednesday, finish their recounts by Tuesday, June 7, and report their results to the state by the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Oz declared himself the \u201cpresumptive Republican nominee\u201d in a social media video on Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s time to unite. I want to hear your ideas and make this country\u2019s future as bright as it has ever been,\u201d Oz said. \u201cWith more freedom, less big government, and by empowering our people, America\u2019s light will shine brighter than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Oz campaign has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-sides-with-oz-in-pennsylvania-recount-election-laws-are-meant-to-be-followed\">support<\/a> from the Republican National Convention (RNC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RNC is intervening in this lawsuit alongside the Pennsylvania GOP because election laws are meant to be followed, and changing the rules when ballots are already being counted harms the integrity of our elections,\u201d RNC chief counsel Matt Raymer said in a statement. \u201cEither of Pennsylvania\u2019s leading Republican Senate candidates would represent the Keystone State better than a Democrat, but Pennsylvania law is clear that undated absentee ballots may not be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCormick\u2019s suit argues that the county election boards are \u201cdisenfranchising\u201d voters. The suit, therefore, demands that the boards count ballots \u201cthat were returned on time but that lack a handwritten date on the exterior mailing envelope.\u201d Meanwhile, the Oz campaign said McCormick is \u201cfollowing the Democrats\u2019 playbook\u201d and decreasing voters\u2019 confidence in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Oz or McCormick will face Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the winner of the Democratic Senate primary, in November. Fetterman \u2014 who served as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, before becoming lieutenant governor in 2019 \u2014 carried every county and more than doubled U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb\u2019s share of the Democratic electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court heard arguments Tuesday from lawyers representing Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick \u2014 who disagree on whether the Republican Senate primary election recount process should consider undated mail-in ballots. Oz, a television host and surgeon, currently leads McCormick, a former Bush official and hedge fund executive, by fewer than 1,000 votes. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1498466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}