Write-in vote count impacts municipal elections
The recently completed count of more than 8,000 write-in votes cast in the May 16 primary will impact many municipal elections in November.
The county election bureau’s computation board counted the votes from 157 primary races Friday to resolve lawsuits filed by two township supervisor candidates who suspected they received enough write-in votes to win political party nominations for the general election.
The computation board did not count write-in votes from the primary in races in which candidates cannot cross-file to run for Republican and Democratic Party nominations.
To resolve the suit, the election board instructed the computation board to count those write-in votes.
On Monday, the bureau certified the vote count, sent the results to the Pennsylvania Department of State and sent nomination acceptance packets to the successful write-in candidates.
