Write-in votes cast in the primary election earlier this week may result in some competition in the November general election.
While unofficial results for write-in candidates have yet to be released, it appears enough write-in votes have been cast in races with no listed candidates that it may result in a candidate making the ballot in the general election in several races.
For the county, district judge or city, a minimum of 100 write-in votes would be needed. In a school board, township or borough race, a minimum of 10 write-in votes is required for a candidate to be on the ballot for the general election. Should more than one candidate receive at least the minimum votes, the candidate with the most votes will win the race.
On the Democratic ticket: in the race for Bradford Township supervisor, there were 113 write-in votes cast; for Kane Area School Board 2-year seat, 49 votes; for Kane mayor, 52 votes; Ceres Township supervisor, 12; Corydon Township supervisor, 11; Hamilton Township supervisor, 11; Wetmore Township supervisor, 25; Kane Borough, 37; Mount Jewett, 11; Port Allegany, 13; and Kane Borough 2-year, 11.
In the race for Mount Jewett Borough, there were 40 Republican write-in votes cast. In the Republican race for Hamilton Township supervisor, there were 49 votes cast; for Keating Township 6-year term as supervisor, 29 votes, and 2-year term, 23 votes; Liberty Township supervisor, 34 votes; Eldred Borough 2-year council seat, 27 votes; Kane Borough Council 2-year seat, 38 votes.
The information on write-in votes was not immediately available from the McKean County elections office on Thursday.
Unofficial results in several other local races were available on the county’s website.
In McKean County, the race for Kane Area School Board showed that the four candidates who made it on the Republican ballot were John Ball with 554, Amber Hancharik with 531, Linda A. Anderson with 522 and Fred John Lorenzo IV with 456.
Claire Ann Buckley received 433 votes. The district is split between two counties. In Elk County, Lorenzo was the top vote getter with 53, then Anderson with 50, Ball and Buckley each with 46, and Hancharik received the fewest votes at 34.
Therefore, unofficial results appear to indicate that Buckley did not garner enough tallies to appear on the Republican ballot for school board.
However, Buckley, Ball, Anderson and Hancharik had cross-filed to run on the Democratic ticket as well. All four will appear on the Democratic ballot in the fall general election.
In the race for the Republican ballot for supervisor in Hamlin Township, candidate James E. Myers received 66 votes, while Donald Compton received 19, making Myers the apparent winner.
In the race for the ballot for supervisor in Norwich Township, candidate Daniel Britton appeared to garner one more vote than Aaron McKeirnan, with 35 votes to 34. Unofficial results indicate Britton would nab the ballot spot.
In Wetmore Township, the Republican ballot spot for supervisor appeared to be snagged by Ryan Wilson, with 170 votes to Scott Austin’s 83.
In Smethport Borough, it appeared that Christopher Hill was unsuccessful in his bid for a Republican ballot spot for a four-year seat on borough council. He received 125 votes, while Ryan Herzog received 145, Jeffrey Tanner received 164, Gregory Rounsville garnered 165 and Kent Herzog, 169.
Hill, however, was the sole candidate for the two-year council seat.
In Keating Township, candidate Sandra Vossler defeated Kara Claycomb for the Republican nomination of tax collector with 273 votes to 129.
In Otto Township, Crystal Burris received 120 votes to Terrie Stives Borkowski’s 76 for the Republican nod for tax collector.
