County election officials are ready to roll for Tuesday’s primary election.

But there is some confusion on the ballot about one of the positions up for grabs — GOP county committee.

Kathy Kemp Jensen, chair of the county Republican Party, raised the issue to the Board of Elections this week.

She said that the ballot asks voters to vote for one male and one female for the county committee “and that is not necessarily the case as far as our bylaws are concerned.”

She told the board that there are precincts with two males listed and others with two females. The bylaws, she said, only say that “preferably” each precinct will be one male and one female.

Commissioner Ben Kafferlin, who serves on the board, said the lack of clarity wouldn’t have any effect if there are two on the ballot because both would be elected anyway.

Kemp Jensen said her concern is that the language might discourage write-in votes if a voter thinks the write-in has to be for a person of a specific gender.

Kafferlin said the county included the language for how the Department of State directs counties to list state party committee positions.

Solicitor Nathaniel Schmidt said the clause would not be included in the future for county races but that it was “late in the day” to change the ballot.

He said he can look into posting something at the precincts clarifying the situation.

Looking more holistically, Elections Director Krystle Ransom said that “everything is ready to go” for Tuesday and that they are “working every day to get each precinct ready for the election.

“Despite the timelines that we have kind of condensed, we are ready for election day and on schedule.”

POLLING PLACE CHANGE REJECTED

Ransom told the board that officials in Clarendon asked for the polling location to be moved from the fire station to the old Allegheny Valley school.

“(We) decided not to move that,” she said, noting that the borough “gave us about a six-week timeline. That just isn’t feasible for us right now.”

Notices to all voters would need to be sent in the event a polling location was charged.

Ransom said the issue could be revisited after the primary election for future elections.