Luzerne County Council candidate Denise Williams said a new campaign mailer put out by the county Republican Party is a “smear” attack that falsely links her to two past election errors.

“Let’s be clear: These accusations are lies,” said Williams, a Kingston Township Democrat who had served as county Election Board chairwoman before she stepped down to run for county council.

The mailer, which is expected to arrive in approximately 30,000 households around Halloween, contains a drawing depicting Williams as a witch holding a broom and asks, “what kind of spooky tricks is Denise Williams responsible for?”

Under headings of “poof” near a cauldron containing a ballot, the mailer contains two newspaper headlines — one about the county resending 6,700 mail ballots due to the misspelling of s

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