There were eight winners of elected positions in Carbon County municipalities when the county’s Board of Elections met on Monday morning to break ties in races that were deadlocked in the primary election balloting. In each of the offices, there was one write-in vote recorded for each person, necessitating a casting of tiles to determine the winners.

Typically, in cases where there are no candidates whose names appear on the printed ballot, write-in votes are used to declare winners of the various offices.

Each of the candidates who were deadlocked with one vote each was notified by the county by mail that the tiebreaking process would take place on Monday. Only one person, Andrew Batson of Towamensing Township, reported to the commissioners’ conference room in the courthouse annex for the short meeting. Chairman Wayne E. Nothstein and Commissioner William J. O’Gurek were present. Commissioner Thomas J. Gerhard was absent.

Batson received one write-in vote for both a two-year term and a six-year term on the Towamensing board of auditors. For the two-year term, he was declared the winner over Patrick J. Havel. For the six-year term, Michael S. George was elected by the tiebreaking process over Batson and Chuck Myers.

The process included pulling numbered tiles for each of the candidates who was deadlocked, with the candidate who received tile No. 1 being declared the winner.

In other ballot-breaking contests, Deborah Imbriaco won the judge of elections race in Lower Towamensing’s District No. 32. The other candidates were Margaret Klotz, Kenneth Kaiser and Brooke E. Klotz. Antoinette Petko was the winner of the judge of elections race over Francis Barno in Lansford’s District No. 23. Edward Jacobs won the judge of elections race over Marge Cusanelli in Nesquehoning’s District No. 41. Karen Binder was the winner of the inspector of elections post over Ryan Bowman in Nesquehoning’s District No. 42. Robyn Barbosa was declared judge of elections in Palmerton’s District No. 47, winning over Sam Claypoole.

And in Lower Towamensing Township, eight people received one vote each for the six-year term on the board of auditors. The winner was Tim Duncan. The other candidates were Brooke E. Klotz, Chris Allen, Imbriaco, Jyneal Kamonka-Green, Kenneth Sutton Sr., Michael Donnelly and Michael N. Bixler.