The status of a million-dollar election recount in the state’s Superior Court election hinges on the decision of one of the nine candidates.
Pittsburgh lawyer Temp Smith, a Republican, said in a telephone interview Wednesday morning that he still hadn’t decided whether to insist on a recount for the last of four open seats on the court.
A tally based on unofficial returns from the Nov. 3 election showed Allegheny County Judge Judy Olson, Tioga County lawyer Sallie Mundy and Chester County Judge Paula Ott , all Republicans , accrued the three highest vote totals.
Democrat Anne Lazarus, a Philadelphia County judge, was in fourth place, followed by three others who trailed her by less than half of 1 percent.
In such cases, a recount is automatic under state law unless all trailing candidates give up that right. Two of those three candidates, Allegheny County Judge Robert Colville and Allegheny County prosecutor Kevin Francis McCarthy , both Democrats , have already sent Cortes letters waiving a recount if the others will, too.
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