HARRISBURG - With just 910 votes separating the two leading candidates in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S.
Senate, counties were preparing Thursday to start the recount between celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.At least seven counties — Bedford, Clinton, Crawford, Lehigh, Montour, Tioga and Warren — said they will begin Friday, while most other counties said they will begin next week.
The initial result from last week’s election remained elusive Thursday, since some counties were still tallying up thousands of remaining ballots.Oz, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, leads McCormick by just 0.07 percentage points out of more than 1.3 million ballots reported by the state Thursday.
McCormick’s campaign has scrounged for votes in order to close the gap with Oz, waging a legal effort in state courts to force counties to count certain mail-in ballots that might otherwise get thrown out on a technicality.In a recount, most of the ballots are simply rescanned electronically.