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Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, Pa With Yesterday being the primary election in Beaver County 24.36% of the registered voters in the county cast a ballot.
With all precincts reporting a total of 27,395 ballots were cast of the 112, 464 registered voters in the county.
21.84% of registered Democratic voters showed up and 34.91% of registered Republicans cast a vote in Beaver County.

The board of elections  began counting  absentee ballots at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.  The total of write-ins for the primary hasn’t been counted, but 298 ballots came in Tuesday’s mail , according to a spokesperson from the Board of Elections.