Tuesday is Primary Election Day in Pennsylvania and here in Washington County, Elections Director Melanie Ostrander is predicting a thirty-five-percent voter turnout. Ostrander says that is a typical turnout for a federal election primary. The election has been tainted with a recent decision by the county’s board of elections, to forbid ballot curing, the fixing of mistakes on absentee and mail-in ballots. Ostrander says they have received 14,147 requests for mail-in ballots, with the majority, over ten-thousand, being from Democrats and the remainder, a little over three-thousand, being from Republicans. Out of those, as of Monday, Ostrander says they have received 11,067 back. Out of that number, 8,409 were Democratic ballots, while the remainder, a little over twenty-six-hundred, were Republican. Pennsylvania leaves a number of election decisions up to county officials. The result has been a lack of uniformity ranging from whether to cure mail-in ballots to the use of drop boxes. Westmoreland, Allegheny, Greene and Fayette counties all allow mail-in ballot curing. Locally, State Representative Bud Book has a Republican challenger in the 50th Legislative District. Stephanie Waggett, is a 44-year-old Carmichaels resident, a registered nurse and a former administrator at the Fayette Energy Facility in Masontown. Cook and Waggett will be vying for Republican votes in the primary election. Cook has represented the 50th Legislative District since the beginning of last year as a result of redistricting. The 50th Legislative District includes all of Greene County and portions of Washington County.