A Trump campaign official says Pennsylvania Dems will face jail time for the recount

Trump campaign chief Chris LaCivita predicted that election officials in Pennsylvania will face jail time for counting mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates after the state Supreme Court previously ruled that such ballots should not be counted.

“They’re going to jail,” LaCivita, Trump’s campaign manager, wrote on his X account Sunday evening. “Count it.”

LaCivita was responding to a social media post citing a Washington Free Beacon article explaining that Democratic Sen. Bob Casey endorsed Democratic Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia last year while campaigning for the position, before he and other Democratic commissioners voted to vote. count the invalid votes.

“I think we all know that precedent doesn’t matter in this country anymore,” Ellis-Marseglia said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to the repeal ballot.

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Pennsylvania is in the midst of a recount after Casey declined to run against Sen.-elect Dave McCormick earlier this month. McCormick’s unofficial margin of victory stood at about 17,000 votes, or within the required 0.5% margin. under Pennsylvania law to start automatic narration.

“The people of Pennsylvania deserve to have their voices heard, and the value of one’s vote is not determined by how long it takes to count,” Casey wrote in defense of his decision not to concede the race. “When a Pennsylvanian takes the time to legally vote, often waits in long lines and takes time away from work and family, he deserves to have his vote counted, whether it’s the first or last vote.”

The state Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail-in ballots that do not include the legally required signatures or dates should not be counted to count legal votes in the state. Democratic-led election boards, however — including in Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Center County — accepted the state’s highest court decision and voted to include those votes in the recount.

“People break the rules whenever they want,” Ellis-Marseglia said last week, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Therefore, for me, if I break this law, it is because I want the court to pay attention. There is nothing more important than counting the votes.”

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In addition to Casey endorsing the Democratic commissioner during last year’s campaign, Ellis-Marseglia, along with Democratic Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, contributed a combined $2,600 to Casey’s campaign this year, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

“The people of Pennsylvania deserve to have their voices heard, and the value of one’s vote is not determined by how long it takes to count,” Casey wrote in defense of his decision not to concede the race. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Republicans have instituted dozens of lawsuits for including ineligible votes in recounts. Republican Party officials file 12 lawsuits in Pennsylvania to defend Senate seat.

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Both national and state Republican parties filed lawsuits four counties across Pennsylvaniaurges courts not to count mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates, according to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling this month.

McCormick’s unofficial margin of victory stood at about 17,000 votes, or within the 0.5% threshold required under Pennsylvania law to trigger an automatic recount. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

RNC officials have challenged the notion that the Senate recount, which runs through Nov. 26, will change the outcome of the election in any material way. They criticized the effort, which cost about $1 million, as a waste of taxpayer money, noting that since 2000 there have been three recounts of state elections in Pennsylvania, and each resulted in an average change of 393 votes.

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Trump campaign chief Chris LaCivita predicted that election officials in Pennsylvania will face jail time for counting mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates after the state Supreme Court previously ruled that such ballots should not be counted. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

“Democrat officials are in the video saying they will choose to break the law, and there will be legal consequences for that,” a senior party official told Fox News earlier Monday.

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“The Casey campaign could end the recount at any time,” Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas said of the lawsuits. “And there are political consequences that destroy voter confidence in the current election. So we need to stop this campaign and declare McCormick the winner.”