Primary results revealed a bad day for Taxpayers United

MIlford — Unofficial returns from Tuesday’s primary elections showed Delaware Valley School Board incumbents Pam Lutfy and Sue Schor winning Democrat and Republican primary victories, all but assuring November victories. Challengers John “Jack” Fisher and Bill Greenlaw will fill the two remaining four-year fall slots on the Democratic ballot. Fisher and incumbent Ed Silverstone finished in tie, with 638 votes each, for one of the remaining four-year, Republican ticket slots, while incumbent board president, Bob Goldsack won the final four-year, GOP slot. Charles Pike defeated Taxpayers United candidate Patty Wright on both tickets for the single two-year seat. Pike County Director of Elections Yolanda Goldsack said none of the results would be official until the completion of a canvass of the results on Friday. Flip you for it Should the tie between Fisher and Silverstone remain after the canvass, state law would have luck intervening, ordering that: “... the candidates receiving the tie vote shall cast lots before the county board or the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as the case may be, at 12 o’clock noon on the third Friday after the election, and the one to whom the lot shall fall shall be declared elected. “ In any case where the fact of a tie vote is not authoritatively determined until after the third Wednesday after the election, the time for casting lots shall be 12 o’clock noon of the second day after the fact of such tie vote is authoritatively determined. “If any candidate or candidates receiving a tie vote, fail to appear before twelve o’clock noon of said day, the county board or the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as the case may be, shall cast lots for him or them. “For the purpose of casting lots any candidate may appear in person, or by proxy duly appointed in writing.” Some 4,143 persons voted county-wide.