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comments Republican state senators in Pennsylvania refused to seat a Democratic senator on Tuesday because his GOP challenger disputed the certified results of the November election. The Republican senators, some of whom recently backed President Donald Trump s baseless bid to overturn his defeat in the state, refused to seat incumbent Democratic Sen. Jim Brewster. The Democrat defeated Republican challenger Nicole Ziccarelli by 69 votes, a result that has been certified by the secretary of state. But Ziccarelli has filed a federal lawsuit against Allegheny County, seeking to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots that did not include a handwritten date on the ballot envelope but which the state Supreme Court allowed the county to tabulate. The 311 ballots in question favor Brewster by a two-to-one margin, meaning that throwing them out would be enough to reverse the election result if the suit is successful. Brewster has argued that the federal court has no jurisdiction to ov

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