The Wikipedia page for Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives still shows the seat for District 197 as VACANT after Tuesday's special election. This is not because the editor of that page has yet to update it. It's because we still don't know the winner. Under normal circumstances, a winner would have been announced Friday. These circumstances are anything but normal.
Lawyers for Republican nominee Lucinda Little, the only candidate who was listed on the ballot, and Green Party nominee Cheri Honkala, who waged a write-in campaign, sent letters to the Commissioners Thursday, demanding that they seal and preserve the ballots.
Both camps alleged widespread voter fraud in the North Philadelphia district.
Little won just 198 votes, which was 7.4 percent of the 2,681 ballots cast. In an unusual development, 2,483 write-in votes were cast.
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