Politics & Government

Write-In Votes Show A Misback vs. Lyons Race for School Board

Lyons wins GOP primary; Misback to appear on Democratic ballot in November election, according to unofficial results.

The fall election for the Region 2 seat on the Pine-Richland School Board will come down to incumbent  on the Democratic ticket and Peter Lyons on the Republican ticket, according to unofficial results.

Although the Allegheny County Elections Division has not officially announced the winners of the write-in campaign for the seat, Misback said she went to the elections office Friday and saw the recount that put her on the Democratic ballot with 84 votes, compared to Lyons' 58 votes.

Lyons won the Republican primary with 124 votes, compared to Misback's 103 votes, she said.

Find out what's happening in Pine-Richlandwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Misback said watching the count of the write-in votes for the seat from the May 17 primary election was very informal.

"I was the only one there," she said.

Find out what's happening in Pine-Richlandwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

A call Monday morning to the Allegheny County Elections Division found that write-in votes for Allegheny County still are being counted and final results are not expected until the end of the week. 

Lyons declared victory for the Republican nomination the morning after the primary election based on a preliminary tally of the write-in votes posted at polling locations throughout Region 2.

The results were posted at all except one polling place -- . Lyons said he asked for the count there and received a verbal report.

Pine-Richland Patch also visited polling places the day after the primary to count write-in votes on election results printouts that were posted at all but the Trinity site. For a story on those early results, . 


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here

More from Pine-Richland