Pa. Senate primary count ground through third day with no apparent resolution, but Oz still holding a slim lead.
As of presstime for this story, that broke down as follows: Oz, 417,719, or 31.2 percent; McCormick 416,596, or 31.1 percent. That’s with an estimated 98.6 percent of the vote in, according to The Associated Press.“We feel quite confident that when every vote that’s been cast is counted, that Dave McCormick is going to be the Republican nominee for the United States Senate from Pennsylvania,” a senior McCormick official said.
State spokesman Mark Walters said late Thursday that the department is estimating there are about 8,700 Republican mail-in and absentee ballots left to count. McCormick’s team believes there may be more. But taking State’s estimate at face value, if the candidates continued to get the same vote share from that group, McCormick could gain 785 votes on Oz.
Jim Allen, director of election operations in Delaware County, said the results in four affected precincts there amounted to a net gain of 16 votes for McCormick, and have already been added to its count.miscues by precinct workers resulted in incomplete counts in 31 polling places. Right now there are 1,582 - between both parties - that are awaiting processing statewide, according to McCormick’s team, and that number could grow. The vast majority of these are civilians: As an example, Allegheny County said that they have ballots in hand from 140 civilians and 11 service members so far.
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