PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — In a recent campaign ad, Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Bob Casey’s campaign makes a claim about his opponent, Senate Candidate Dave McCormick, calling his voting record into question.
The ad shows a clip from a local Pittsburgh television station claiming McCormick did not vote in Allegheny County, where he’s registered, from 2007 to 2022.
"He did not vote here for 15 years," a reporter said in the recorded clip.
So let’s, Verify.
Our sources are voting data from the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Allegheny County Elections Division.
The Pennsylvania Department of State keeps records of every ballot cast by registered voters and how they voted; whether it was by mail, absentee, or at the polls.
The Department of State data shows David McCormick first registered to vote in Allegheny county in 1997 as a Republican and confirms he’s voted in five elections in the county since launching his first U.S. Senate run in 2022.
The Department of State’s current data only goes back to 2009, so to Verify this claim we asked the Allegheny County Elections Division for David McCormick’s full voting record.
They sent us this document, again showing McCormick first registered in 1997.
It shows he voted in seven general elections and two primaries from 1997 until 2006.
The last was an absentee vote in the 2006 general election.
The next ballot he cast in Allegheny County would not come until the 2022 primary, more than 15 years later.
So, we can Verify the claim in this campaign ad is true.
The McCormick campaign did not respond to our request for comment.
During our research we also obtained the voting records for U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr.
Pennsylvania Department of State data shows he first registered to vote in 1978 as a Democrat.
The Scranton native has cast a ballot in every election in Lackawanna County since 2005. That’s as far back as the state’s current data table goes for Lackawanna County.
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