Klabnik will compete against Miller on November ballot

Marla Klabnik will advance to the general election as the Democratic candidate for Winfield Township’s tax collector, as the result of an unusual, rarely-used tiebreaking procedure, which was held on Friday, June 6 at the Butler County Bureau of Elections office.

The procedure, called the “casting of lots,” was made necessary after both Klabnik and Maisie Miller garnered exactly 26 write-in votes from Democratic-registered voters in the primary election held on May 20. Both candidates registered only as Republicans, meaning that Democratic voters would have had to write in the names of either candidate to cast a vote for them, since Pennsylvania is a “closed primary” state.

“We made them count the write-ins, like, three times, just

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