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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Contested races up in air following adjudication
The race for PENNCREST School District's Board of Directors may have an upset based on the write-in count for Jason Digiacomo. Currently, the fourth candidate to make the Democratic ballot is Amber Wright, who also made it on the Republican ballot. Wright unofficially has 342 votes for the Democratic ballot while Digiacomo had 311 spelled correctly with about 35 write-ins that seem to be derivatives of Digiacomo, but the commissioners will have to vote on which ones they are willing to count. Chris Seeley, commissioner and head of the Board of Elections, said that sometimes the commissioners are not unanimous in their votes to reject or accept various spellings of a candidate's name when attempting to decipher the voter's intent. There were also 35 provisional ballots cast that will not be uploaded to the website until the official results are available. Provisional ballots are cast when there's something wrong with a person's voter registration. For example, Seeley said if someone resides in Linesville Borough but went to vote in Conneaut Lake Borough, they may cast a provisional ballot that the commissioners would decide on. This year, commissioners — who are official tabulators — accepted 23 ballots and rejected nine while partially counting three. A partial count, like in the example above, might be to accept the overlapping races in the two places, like a county official or district judge. Another close race that could change based on provisional ballots and hand-counted ballots is the Republican ballot for tax collector of Rome Township. The race is currently down to one vote between Jillian Burleigh, 70 votes, and Marsha M. Jackson, 71. Also, the fourth and final spot on the Democratic ballot for Crawford Central School Director remains a one-vote difference between Tammy Silvis, 956 votes, and Arnold E. Johnson III, 955. Starting this morning, the commissioners will begin tabulating the results for the official count, which Seeley estimated will continue next week. Tabulating the results will also enable people to see how each candidate fared in the various precincts. Once the adjudicated races are tabulated, the official results will be posted for five days in which people can file to challenge. If there are no challenges, the commissioners will vote to certify the official results.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Yahoo
2024 Amish murder case transferred to Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office
The case against Shawn Cranston, the man accused of killing a pregnant Amish woman in Sparta Township nearly a year ago, is now being handled by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. Crawford County District Attorney Paula Digiacomo told JET 24/FOX 66 that she made that request in October due to a lack of staffing. Digiacomo said that she was down to only two prosecutors in her office with herself being one of them. Digiacomo handled Cranston's preliminary hearings and discovery but has now handed the case over to two prosecutors appointed by the attorney general's office. She added she's happy to help out however she can moving forward, and would have prosecuted the case herself if she had the resources to. Cranston is accused of killing 23-year-old Rebecca Byler inside her home on Fish Flats Road back in February 2024. Cranston's trial is still scheduled to go on in March of this year. Trial for man accused of killing pregnant Amish woman pushed to 2025 New information takes center stage in Rebekah Byler murder trial Man accused of killing pregnant Amish woman appears in court List of seized items released in pregnant Amish woman homicide case Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
