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Post a commentAnnouncement set today on Superior Court recount
HARRISBURG - Pittsburgh lawyer Temp Smith said yesterday that he planned to announce today whether he would insist on a recount for the last of four open seats on the state's Superior Court.
A State Department tally based on unofficial returns showed Allegheny County Judge Judy Olson, Tioga County lawyer Sallie Mundy, and Chester County Judge Paula Francisco Ott - all Republicans - had the highest vote totals in the statewide balloting Nov. 3.
Democrat Anne Lazarus, a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge, was in fourth place, followed by three others who trailed her by less than one-half of 1 percent of the total votes cast. A recount is automatic under state law unless all the trailing candidates give up that right. Allegheny County Judge Robert Colville and Allegheny County prosecutor Kevin Francis McCarthy, both Democrats, sent Cortes letters waiving a recount if the others will. - AP
