CNN — Democrat Josh Shapiro, the incoming Pennsylvania governor, announced Thursday that he has selected Republican Al Schmidt, a leading opponent of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to disrupt the counting of votes in 2020, to become secretary of the commonwealth, the state’s top elections official. Schmidt was the lone Republican on Philadelphia’s elections board when Trump and his allies falsely declared a premature victory in Pennsylvania and then sought to prevent officials from completing their count of mail-in ballots. Trump targeted Schmidt in a November 11, 2020, tweet, alleging that he “refuses to look at a mountain of corruption...