![]() State elections officials said the votes weren’t enough to change the results of a federal election. ![]() The ballots - nearly 10,000 of them - were never counted in any federal race, including for president, because the election was certified while their fate remained in legal limbo. The nation’s highest court ultimately declined to take the case. The ruling spurred an outcry among Republicans, who challenged the decision in the U.S. In one 2020 election case, justices ordered counties to count mail-in ballots that arrived up to three days after polls closed, citing delays in mail service caused by disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The state’s high court quickly overturned McCullough’s order. McCullough was ruling in a Republican-backed post-election legal challenge that sought to tilt victory to Donald Trump in the presidential battleground state. On the campaign trail, McCullough repeatedly boasted of being the “only judge in 2020 in the presidential election in the entire country” to order a halt to her state’s election certification. ![]() Party allies reported spending nearly $1 million to help her beat McCullough. McCaffery defeated Deborah Kunselman, a colleague on the Superior Court, and Carluccio defeated Patricia McCullough, a Commonwealth Court judge who lost a primary for a high court seat in 2021. (AP) - Democrat Dan McCaffery and Republican Carolyn Carluccio won their parties’ primaries for a vacant seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday, setting up a fall contest to join a high court that is at the center of cases on guns, abortion and elections in a presidential battleground state.Įach nominee won a two-way primary race. ![]()
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