On August 1, a Pennsylvania state court judge ordered that write-in votes for two candidates for local office should count, even though some of the voters wrote the names of the candidates in the wrong place on the mechanical voting machines. The case was called Petition to Cumulate Write-in Votes, no. GD05-16656 and 05-16659, 5th district Common Pleas Court (Allegheny County). As a result of the decision, the write-in candidates won the Republican primary for Kennedy Township Commissioner and South Fayette Township Treasurer.