DELAWARE VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD
Director, four-year term
Vote for not more than four:
DEMOCRATIC
E.K. Guyre 653
John Johnson 664
Felicia Sheehan 479
Derek Smith 320
Jessica Adler Decker 431
Elizabeth Mallard 704
Rosemary A. Walsh 608
Pam Lufty 573
REPUBLICAN
Felicia Sheehan 1,406
Elizabeth Mallard 448
Pam Lufty 1,606
Rosemary A. Walsh 630
Derek Smith 1,102
John Johnson 461
Jessica Adler Decker 1,384
E.K. Guyre 304
PIKE COUNTY
Sheriff, four-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Kerry Walsh 3,796
MILFORD BOROUGH
Mayor, four-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Lisa Emery 86
DEMOCRATIC
Sean Strub 96
Councilmember, four-year term
Vote for not more than three:
DEMOCRATIC
Maria Farrell 87
Tamara Chant 85
REPUBLICAN
Doug Manion 53
George Lufty 79
Timothy Haar 61
Councilmember, two-year term
Vote for one:
DEMOCRATIC
Maria Farrell 55
Tamara Chant 33
REPUBLICAN
Andrew Jorgenson 55
Doug Manion 20
George Lufty 33
Tax collector, four-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Carol S. Osterberg 110
MILFORD TOWNSHIP
Tax collector, four-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Lorelei K. Davis 100
Patrick G. McCarthy 60
Constable, six-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Timothy L. Haken 126
DINGMAN TOWNSHIP #1
Supervisor, six-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Theo Balu 203
Dennis L. Brink 253
Tax collector, four-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
James Leiser 470
DINGMAN TOWNSHIP #2
Supervisor, six-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
Theo Balu 203
Dennis Brink 144
Tax collector, four-year term
Vote for one:
REPUBLICAN
James Leiser 359
PROPOSITIONS
Disaster declarations:
Two questions asked voters to approve constitutional amendments giving lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, and to apply whether the emergency is another pandemic or a natural disaster. Both were ahead by at least 10 points as of Wednesday morning, both statewide and Pike County.
They asked voters to end a governor’s emergency disaster declaration after 21 days and to give lawmakers the sole authority to extend it or end it at any time with a simple majority vote.
Current law allows a governor to issue an emergency declaration for up to 90 days and extend it without limit. The constitution requires a two-thirds majority vote by lawmakers to end the declaration.
The outcome will give the Republican-dominated General Assembly far more say in determining the duration and existence of disaster declarations. Wolf opposes the change.
Ethnicity and race:
Voters were asked to decide whether to add a passage to the constitution outlawing discrimination because of someone’s race or ethnicity. As of Wednesday morning, this proposition was ahead in Pike County, 5,163 to 2,585; statewide it was ahead 72 to 28 percent.
It’s believed to be the first time since last summer’s protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that voters decided a racial equity issue on a statewide ballot.
It will become the constitution’s fourth equality provision, added to “all men are born equally free and independent,’’ a protection from discrimination in exercising civil rights, and a 1971 amendment that ensures gender equality.