Trump campaign official says Pennsylvania Dems will face jail time over ballot recount

Trump run authoritative Chris LaCivita predicted predetermination officials successful Pennsylvania volition look jailhouse clip for counting mail-in ballots with either incorrect oregon missing dates aft the authorities Supreme Court antecedently ruled specified ballots should not beryllium counted.

"They volition spell to jail," LaCivita, Trump's co-campaign manager, posted to his X relationship connected Sunday evening. "Count connected it."

LaCivita was reacting to a societal media station touting a Washington Free Beacon nonfiction detailing that Democratic Sen. Bob Casey endorsed Democratic Bucks County commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia past twelvemonth during her run for the position, earlier she and different Democratic commissioners successful the authorities voted to number the disqualified ballots. 

"I deliberation we each cognize that precedent by a tribunal doesn’t substance anymore successful this country," Ellis-Marseglia said Thursday arsenic she and different Democrats voted to cull a GOP-led situation to ballots that should beryllium disqualified. 

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Pennsylvania is successful the midst of a ballot recount aft Casey refused to concede his contention against Sen.-elect Dave McCormick earlier this month. McCormick's unofficial borderline of triumph stands astatine astir 17,000 votes, oregon wrong the 0.5% threshold required under Pennsylvania law to trigger an automatic recount.

"Pennsylvanians merit to person their voices heard, and the worthy of someone’s ballot is not determined by however agelong it takes to beryllium counted," Casey wrote successful an op-ed defending his determination to not concede the race. "When a Pennsylvanian takes the clip to formed a ineligible vote, often waiting successful agelong lines and taking clip distant from their enactment and family, they merit to person their ballot counted, whether it is the archetypal ballot counted oregon the last."

The authorities Supreme Court ruled up of the predetermination that mail-in ballots that bash not see formally required signatures oregon dates should not beryllium counted for the authoritative tally of votes successful the state. Democratic-led predetermination boards, nevertheless — including successful Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Centre County — bucked the authorities precocious court's ruling and voted to see specified ballots successful the recount. 

Pennsylvania is successful the midst of a ballot recount aft Casey refused to concede his contention against Sen.-elect Dave McCormick earlier this month.  (Getty Images)

"People interruption laws immoderate clip they want," Ellis-Marseglia said past week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "So, for me, if I interruption this instrumentality it’s due to the fact that I privation a tribunal to wage attention. There’s thing much important than counting votes."

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In summation to Casey endorsing the Democratic commissioner during her run past year, Ellis-Marseglia, arsenic good arsenic chap Democratic Bucks County commissioner Bob Harvie, donated a combined $2,600 to the Casey run this year, the Washington Free Beacon reported. 

"Pennsylvanians merit to person their voices heard, and the worthy of someone’s ballot is not determined by however agelong it takes to beryllium counted," Casey wrote successful an op-ed defending his determination to not concede the race. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Republicans person launched a bevy of lawsuits implicit including the disqualified ballots successful the recount. Republican Party officials are filing 12 lawsuits successful Pennsylvania successful order to support the Senate seat.

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Both nationalist and authorities Republican parties person filed lawsuits successful four counties crossed Pennsylvania, urging the courts to not number mail-in ballots with either incorrect oregon missing dates, successful accordance with a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling this month.

McCormick's unofficial borderline of triumph stands astatine astir 17,000 votes, oregon wrong the 0.5% threshold required nether Pennsylvania instrumentality to trigger an automatic recount. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

RNC officials challenged the conception that the Senate recount, which continues done Nov. 26, volition alteration the result of the predetermination successful immoderate substantive way. They person decried the effort, which costs an estimated $1 million, arsenic a discarded of payer money, noting that since 2000 determination person been conscionable 3 statewide predetermination recounts successful Pennsylvania, and each has resulted successful an mean alteration of 393 votes.

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Trump run authoritative Chris LaCivita predicted predetermination officials successful Pennsylvania volition look jailhouse clip for counting mail-in ballots with either incorrect oregon missing dates aft the authorities Supreme Court antecedently ruled specified ballots should not beryllium counted. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

"Democrat officials are connected video saying that they're going to take to interruption the law, and determination volition beryllium ineligible consequences for that," a elder enactment authoritative told Fox News earlier Monday. 

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"The Casey run could extremity the recount astatine immoderate time," Pennsylvania Republican Party Chair Lawrence Tabas added of the lawsuits. "And determination are governmental ramifications of eroding the voters' assurance successful elections that has been built. So we request to halt this effort astatine electioneering and state McCormick the winner."