According to this story, a Pike County, Pennsylvania, Court of Common Pleas will itself recount the write-in votes in this year’s primary for local office, in a few precincts. The recount will be conducted in open court on September 9. The county elections office expected to conduct the write-in itself, but the judge pointed to a statute that a court should do this work. Pennsylvania, more than any other state, provides that courts should do the kind of work that election administrators in other states usually perform, such as checking petition signatures.