Washington Post editorial board blasts Pennsylvania Democrats in scathing piece about recount efforts

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The editorial committee of the Washington Post published a captious portion astir Pennsylvania Democrats Saturday, denouncing politicians who voted successful favour of counting invalid ballots during a U.S. Senate contention recount.

The portion came arsenic Keystone State Democrats question to salvage invalid provisional ballots successful favour of Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who mislaid to Republican Senator-elect Dave McCormick successful the Nov. 5 election.

Casey mislaid by a borderline of around 24,000 votes and has not yet conceded the race. Because the borderline betwixt the 2 candidates was little than fractional a point, an automatic recount was triggered by Pennsylvania law.

State rules dictate that provisional ballots indispensable beryllium signed successful 2 places and that mail-in votes indispensable see close dates. Democrats successful immoderate counties person voted successful favour of counting ballots that were deemed invalid, which contradicts a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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The Washington Post op-ed addressed efforts by Pennsylvania Democrats to number invalid message and provisional ballots. (Getty Images)

"I deliberation we each cognize that precedent by a tribunal doesn’t substance anymore successful this country," Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday.

"People interruption laws anytime they want," she added. "So, for me, if I interruption this law, it’s due to the fact that I privation a tribunal to wage attention. There’s thing much important than counting votes."

In a portion titled "Democrats thumb their chemoreceptor astatine the regularisation of instrumentality successful Pennsylvania," the WaPo editorial committee wrote that predetermination rules "must beryllium applied arsenic and consistently."

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"Democrats would surely protestation if a Republican commissioner made the aforesaid connection [as Ellis-Marseglia] to warrant tipping the scales for their party’s Senate nominee — and they would beryllium right," the committee said. "Elections request rules, established successful beforehand of the voting, and those rules indispensable beryllium applied arsenic and consistently."

The op-ed besides predicted that the votes "will astir surely beryllium overturned connected appeal, but the specified effort to defy judicial rulings is corrosive to ideology and invites akin behaviour successful aboriginal elections."

A idiosyncratic votes connected Election Day successful Pittsburgh Nov. 5. (Reuters/Quinn Glabicki)

"Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, by the way, includes 5 justices elected successful partisan elections arsenic Democrats and conscionable 2 elected arsenic Republicans," the editorial committee noted. "Even if that partisan equilibrium were reversed, however, the court’s authorization would beryllium arsenic legitimate."

The op-ed besides flatly states that Casey "almost surely mislaid the race," and called for Democrats to judge the nonaccomplishment gracefully, "especially if they privation to proceed claiming theirs is the enactment of democracy."

"State instrumentality besides entitles Mr. Casey to a statewide recount due to the fact that Mr. McCormick’s borderline of triumph is smaller than fractional a percent point, though not by much," the op-ed said.  "A recount is improbable to alteration the outcome."

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania sits connected signifier and listens to erstwhile President Obama astatine a rally successful Pittsburgh Oct. 10. (Fox News/Paul Steinhauser)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Casey run for comment.

Fox News Digital's Sophia Compton and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.