The recount in the Pennsylvania Senate Race got started yesterday, more than two weeks after election day.
Republican challenger Dave McCormick led incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey by about 17,000 votes out of almost 7 million ballots counted as of Monday. That is inside the 0.5% margin threshold to trigger an automatic statewide recount under state law.
At 8 a.m. Wednesday, the ballot counting machines at the elections warehouse in Northeast Philadelphia were fired up.
“We are doing an extra check this time, because of the closeness of the race for U.S. Senate,” says Philadelphia City Commissioner Seth Bluestein.
The results of the recount were scheduled to be released next Monday but by 5pm today, most of the votes had already been recounted. And to no one’s surprise, they showed Dave McCormick still leading by thousands of votes. No recount that…
