Even the county's close races in last week's primary election were not affected by the 1,185 provisional ballots counted Friday and Monday.

And 47,226 people voted, or 42.13 percent of the county's registered voters.

That's the word from Wil White, county solicitor and interim overseer of the county elections bureau, who confirmed Monday that the official vote counts were completed by the election board and were to be sent to the state Tuesday.

He said about 1,285 provisional ballots were cast June 2, but about 100 were disallowed for various reasons.

Those reasons include voters who filled out and returned a mail-in ballot but decided to vote at the polls anyway, voters who said they were affiliated with one party and were found to be with the other, voters who were neither Democrat nor Republican, women who did not change their name on their voter registration when they got married or divorced, and a voter's stated address being one number off from the address listed at the polling place.

Rather than poll workers sorting those issues, all voters are allowed to fill out a provisional ballot at the polls.

“The whole concept of a provisional ballot is to let them vote, and we'll sort it out,” White said.

Regarding election outcomes, White said the provisional ballots served to uphold the winning candidates.

Because the elections bureau sent out about 25,000 mail-in ballots but only received about 21,000 back, White said closer to 4,000 provisional ballots could have been cast if those who did not return their mail-in ballots had voted at their polling places.

White was pleased with the number of voters who exercised their rights in the primary election.

“That's incredibly high for a primary,” White said.

He said Democrats edged Republicans in the number of total votes, at 42.9 percent to 41.7 percent.

Regarding write-in votes, White said some Republican committeemen were elected, but no major race was swayed by write-in candidates.

In the Buffalo Township 2 precinct, 160 write-in votes were received for Republican committeeman. Of those, 152 were for Dan Ritter, the unofficial winner.

In Butler Township 1-1, 48 of the 94 write-in votes were for Michael Beamer, also the unofficial winner for that seat.

“They must have done at least some campaigning,” White said.

Because military votes can arrive and be counted up until 5 p.m. Tuesday, the final vote count might be different by one or two votes.

White said the county must file with the state by Tuesday the total ballots cast in each party and whether any went uncounted.

“We have one,” he said.

White explained that an 18-year-old, first-time voter showed up at their polling place without their photo identification.

According to federal law, White said, first-time voters must present their identification at the polls. So the young voter was given and filled out a provisional ballot on election night one week ago.

The county election board decided that the young woman's vote would be counted if she presented her ID to the county by 5 p.m. today.

As of Monday evening, she had agreed to bring her ID in by that deadline so her vote would be counted, but the total vote count will have been sent to the state by then.

“That's technically why when we report (the vote count) to the state (on Tuesday), we are showing one single vote uncounted,” White said.

The general election will be held Nov. 3.