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Marc Elias is the Democratic Party’s éminence grise. Formerly a partner in the Perkins Coie law firm, he was the architect of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s fabrication of the fake “dossier” on Donald Trump. Perkins Coie acted as a cutout, so that the Clinton campaign submitted a false report to the FEC, characterizing the payment to Fusion GPS as legal fees paid to Perkins Coie. For reasons unknown, no law enforcement authorities chose to charge Elias, or anyone else, with a crime.

Elias also got involved in the 2008 Minnesota Senate election between incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. Elias was instrumental in turning an apparent Coleman victory into a 215 vote “win” for the comedian.

Elias left Perkins Coie under murky circumstances, but he hasn’t gone away. Now he is lurking in the background of the Pennsylvania Senate race, which has been called for Dave McCormick over incumbent Democrat Bob Casey. But Casey refuses to concede:

I am not sure on what basis news organizations have called the race. I haven’t seen any figures more recent than these:

If there are 122,000 ballots outstanding and McCormick is 40,145 votes ahead, Casey could still have a shot. If he won two-thirds of the outstanding ballots, he could be the victor.

Which raises two obvious questions. First, where are the missing ballots? If they are largely in Philadelphia, it could be a problem. Philadelphia has been notorious for a century or more as a center of voter fraud. I don’t trust any numbers that come out of Philadelphia.

Second, why are there still 122,000 ballots outstanding four days after the election? Some states, like Florida, count their ballots and announce the results promptly. Others don’t. Conservatives can be forgiven for suspecting that results are delayed so that Democratic Party officials in corrupt jurisdictions like Philadelphia know how many fake votes they need to manufacture.

Is that a paranoid view of things? I hope so. But as long as Marc Elias is on the scene, we can’t be confident that McCormick’s “called” victory will stand up.