Pennsylvania’s top election official says this week’s primary election went smoothly.
Acting Secretary of State Al Schmidt spoke shortly after the election in Harrisburg.
“The people who run elections have a saying that you’ll never read a headline that says ‘the election went smoothly,’ but that’s exactly what happened,” Schmidt said.
Locally, Butler County saw a voter turnout of 22 percent. That works out to just over 30,000 voters who cast a ballot. Nearly 8,000 of those voters cast a ballot by mail—a majority that were Democrats.
