The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the costs of accuracy in the vote are causing political fallout. Governor Shapiro reiterates that PA law provides for an automatic recount where the margin is below 0.5% in statewide races and that McCormick himself has invoked the right in the past. Casey currently trails by 0.25% of the vote.
“‘PA doesn’t need to waste millions of tax dollars on a recount for the US Senate that won’t change the outcome of Election Day,’ Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R., Westmoreland), the top Republican in the state Senate, wrote on X last week. ‘Protect our tax dollars and tell Senator Casey to stop. McCormick won.’”