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Al Schmidt: “20 years ago, Pennsylvania passed a law requiring automatic…”

Featuring: Al Schmidt, Republican | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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On the Issues: 2024 Election Process in PA, Al Schmidt

Published | Video Starts at 05:06

The Department of State had announced that it would be going into an automatic recount. Can you talk a little bit about. What that entails in Pennsylvania? 20 years ago, Pennsylvania passed a law requiring automatic recounts whenever results for an election were within 1/2 of 1%. So our recounts are automatic. They are required. They are mandatory. They're not a sign that anything is amiss or that there's some confusion as to the results. (05:06–05:17)

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Asserts that Pennsylvania law mandates automatic recounts for election results within 0.5%.

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