CRANBERRY TWP — A verbal altercation between a school board candidate and an opponent's electioneer Tuesday did not end with one party being escorted away, as the candidate has claimed.

According to Cranberry police, Erin McClymonds and a campaign volunteer for her Seneca Valley school Board Region 1 opponent Leslie Bredl engaged in a verbal altercation outside Grace Victory Church, one of the two Region 1 polling places, Tuesday afternoon.

Cranberry police Lt. Chuck Mascellino said officers were dispatched for two calls, both claiming harassment by the other party. McClymonds called police first, Mascellino said, while Bredl's electioneer subsequently called police. Both McClymonds and the electioneer, Mascellino said, alleged the other was harassing them.

Police did not file charges against either party, and Mascellino said no intervention was needed, other than speaking with the parties.

McClymonds claimed, in a 2:30 p.m. Tuesday post to Facebook, that the electioneer was “escorted off property (sic) for harassing me, voter interference and for calling me a racist”; according to Mascellino, the two voluntarily separated and agreed to have no further contact, and neither party was escorted away.