They're Counting Mail-in Ballots in Pennsylvania Again. And Revealing Their Election Fraud Playbook.

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Jay Kuo
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The GOP finds itself in the awkward position of awaiting the final count of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania before a winner of the senate primary can be determined. Ironically, that was the very situation the Trump campaign labeled as “fraud” in 2020.

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They’re Counting Mail-in Ballots in Pennsylvania Again. And Revealing Their Election Fraud Playbook.
The two top Republican Senate hopefuls in Pennsylvania, former hedge fund manager David McCormick and TV personality and physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, have an awkward problem. Their vote totals are...
9:29 AM · May 19, 2022

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The two top Republican Senate hopefuls in Pennsylvania, former hedge fund manager David McCormick and TV personality and physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, have an awkward problem. Their vote totals are separated by just some 1,500 votes as of the time of this writing, with thousands of mail-in ballots still left to count. These absentee ballots are precisely the kind that election deniers claimed during the 2020 election were somehow fraudulent, improper or illegal. It will now be rather tricky for either candidate to claim victory without someone crying foul.

On cue, former President Trump has weighed in, in his typical reckless and dangerous fashion, posting on his platform “Truth Social” that his endorsed candidate, Dr. Oz, ought to name himself the winner now, before the remaining votes are even counted. “Dr. Oz should declare victory,” Trump posted. “It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find.’”

Trump did not elaborate on who “they” are in this instance or how cheating would occur. Presumably, he meant Democratic election officials and workers, though it is hardly clear which candidate “they” would even prefer to win, or why anyone would risk prosecution to ensure that one of the GOP candidates lost. Further, the notion that ballots simply magically appear is a conspiracy that has been debunked repeatedly, but with election denier Doug Mastriano now the GOP candidate for governor, we are likely to see these claims resurface.

Logic and facts have never mattered when it comes to “stolen election” claims. In the Pennsylvania election challenges, it is often forgotten that the court challenge to the mail-in ballots was not over fraud at all but rather over the very legality of using mail-in ballots in the first instance. Indeed, when he appeared before Judge Matthew Brann of the U.S. District Court, Rudy Giuliani admitted that the Trump Campaign’s amended complaint was not alleging any instance of actual election fraud in the state.

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. Trump will say it's fraud if Oz loses.

[cilla4progress]

2. "Ironically"?

Or dishonestly and hypocritically?!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I love to see their reactions now, being that they're cheating/ perpetuating fraud on themselves.

What's that saying out there, that a dish is best served cold?

The taste of revenge is sweet and I hope that every single close race that the republicans are in, that they'll have these issues of coming up from every republican candidate who'll yell 'fraud' or 'cheating' every time one of them picks up a ballot for any reason at all. Serves them right and I hope that they suffer.

[VarryOn]

4. I may have to resort to mail-in ballots some day...

but as long as I'm able, I will always vote in person. I dont trust the process, and you have no idea if you're ballot ends up being counted or thrown in a dumpster. This taking multiple days to get votes counted is ridiculous.