Allegheny County certifies primary results, with undated mail-in ballots included

The May primary has finally come to a close, with all races decided and certified.

The Allegheny County Board of Elections voted Thursday to certify the 2022 primary results with tallies of undated mail-in ballots included, as directed by the Pennsylvania Department of State. This came following the county completing an automatic recount triggered by a close Republican U.S. Senate race, and court cases involving undated mail-in ballots.

There were about 200 undated mail-in ballots to count in Allegheny County. The ballots arrived on-time and were postmarked, but lacked handwritten dates on their declaration envelopes.

GOP U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick had pushed to have the ballots counted, but his opponent Mehmet Oz had said the ballots shouldn’t be counted. However, on June 3, McCormick conceded his close race against Oz, realizing that he couludn’t catch Oz even if the undated ballots were counted.

Allegheny County’s undated ballots didn’t affect any outcomes of local or statewide races.

In addition to adding the undated mail-in ballots to the final tallies, Allegheny County officials also approved write-in candidates for local county Democratic and Republican committee seats.

On the Democratic side, 89 write-in candidates had accepted votes as of June 22. This is in addition to the 1,312 candidates that already won seats on the Allegheny County Democratic Committee.

For the Republican committee, 32 write-in candidates accepted votes as of June 22. Another 425 candidates already won seats on the Republican Committee of Allegheny County.

A full list of winners is provided on the Allegheny County Election Division webpage.