Former GOP chair earns 47 percent of votes cast in write-in race
By Randy Arrington
LURAY, Nov. 19 — After sorting through more than 600 ballots cast in the write-in race for the District 1 seat on the Page County School Board, local election officials have announced that former GOP chairman Dan Bogdewic won the four-year term extending through Dec. 31, 2029.
No candidate filed their candidacy with the county voter registrar in this race, and no candidate appeared on the ballot. Nearly 12 percent of the ballots cast for the District 1 school board seat (69) were ruled invalid due to being illegible or pledging their vote to “anyone”, “no one” or “none”. While nearly 2,000 ballots were cast in the governor’s race in District 1, less than one-third of the voters that turned out to the polls voted in the district’s school board race.
“There was a huge number that could have voted and didn’t,” said Page County Voter Registrar Carol Gaunt.
Bogdewic received a total of 281 votes, 46.8 percent of all ballots and 52.8 percent of all valid votes. The winner’s total was just 87 votes ahead of the other write-in candidate, Bette Schmidt, who earned 194 votes.
A total of 57 ballots went for “other candidates.” The registrar says that while other write-in ballots cast across the county went for traditional fictional characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pigpen — “we hadn’t gotten Pigpen before…but he had two votes this time” — all of the write-in ballots in the District 1 school board race were real, local people.
The vacancy was created when School Board member Taylor Alger announced that she would not be running for re-election in District 1. The seat drew no official candidates by the June filing deadline, but Schmidt announced a write-in candidacy by early July. Bogdewic would announce the same by late summer. Both write-in candidates were featured in a candidate forum hosted by PVN in early October.
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