The campaign of Republican Dave McCormick, who was projected the winner of the Pennsylvania Senate race, has filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphia County Board of Elections to challenge the counting of provisional ballots, which began today.
McCormick defeated incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), the Associated Press projected on Nov. 7, with 97 percent of votes counted. Casey has yet to concede.
The board began counting the provisional ballots on Nov. 8, when the case was scheduled to be heard.
There are approximately 15,000–20,000 provisional ballots, according to the suit, which was obtained by The Epoch Times.
The suit requests that the campaign be allowed to make “global challenges” during the counting as it “is concerned that the sheer number of provisional ballots will overwhelm the capacity for individual challenges, creating an impractical burden that risks errors or inconsistencies in the adjudication process.”…