(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Commonwealth Media Services, Caption for Photo: An hour after polls closed, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said today’s midterm primary election ran smoothly with few issues reported by counties.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) About an hour after polls closed yesterday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said Pennsylvania’s primary election ran smoothly, with few issues reported by counties. 

Schmidt spoke at the Capitol Media Center in Harrisburg and stated: “Thanks to hundreds of county election officials and approximately 45,000 poll workers, Pennsylvania held another safe and secure election. Eligible voters cast their ballots at more than 9,000 precincts across our 67 counties.”

State officials also said more than 854,000 registered Pennsylvania voters requested mail ballots for the primary election. As of 8 p.m. yesterday, counties reported that about 77% of those ballots had been returned.