Democrats Dominate Election Day

It was a busy election night in Washington County. All results are in and voters showed a strong interest in this year’s off year election. In Washington County 42.49% of registered voters turned out. In contested races, Heather Sheatler won her race for County Controller, Judge John DiSalle was retained as Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge. Cindy Fisher held off a challenge for her seat as a Cecil Township Supervisor and Dave Rhome will hold onto his position of Mayor of Canonsburg.  Election officials say the write-in votes have to be manually reviewed by the Canvass Board and they will not be available until the end of next week.  The Canvass Board begins meeting this Friday at 9:00 am.  The first step is to review the mail in ballots which were unreadable by the scanner due to rips, tears, and unclear marks by the voters.  After those votes are tabulated , provisional ballots will then be reviewed.  After the provisional ballots are tabulated, the board will begin reviewing the write-in votes.  The required deadline for final certification is November 24th.  A full review of all races can be found here.