Pa. Senate recount update: McCormick seeks hand-count in scores of precincts
Updated: May. 31, 2022, 7:35 p.m. | Published: May. 31, 2022, 7:26 p.m.
It should be all over in about one week, but David McCormick’s U.S. Senate campaign showed signs Tuesday of fighting vigorously to the end for a full and accurate recount of the primary contest between he and self-declared “presumptive nominee” Dr. Mehmet Oz. Recount results are supposed to be made public no later than June 8.
The eventual winner will take on Democratic Party nominee and sitting Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the general election for the right to succeed U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who is not seeking re-election.
By day’s end Tuesday, Oz, the former heart surgeon-turned-daytime television star, was still leading former Wall Street hedge fund leader McCormick by 922 votes in unofficial returns. That lead equalled seven hundredths of a percentage points, with Oz at 31.21 percent, and McCormick at 31.14 percent.
In race developments Tuesday:
McCormick’s campaign filed a new petition with the state Commonwealth Court seeking an order for hand recounts of potentially hundreds of precincts across 12 counties where, campaign officials said, they have questions about discrepancies between the total numbers of primary votes cast and votes counted in the Senate race.
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