Looks Like Shake-Up In Makeup Of Pottstown School Board

12:10 a.m. Wednesday Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman Tweets: "I am deeply honored and humbled to have been re-elected tonight to serve as District Attorney of Montgomery..."

11:58 p.m. Eileen Whalon Behr, Sheriff of Montgomery County, Tweets: "We have 99% in and waiting final results."

11:33 p.m. unofficial results:

Rep - Scott T. Palladino 1,408 55.50%

Dem - Judith Nealy Watts 1,129 44.50%

11:32 p.m. WEST POTTSGROVE COMMISSIONER (Vote For Not More Than Two) unofficial results:

Rep - Rock D'Emilio 335 51.07%

Rep - Pete LaRosa 321 48.93%

11:31 p.m. UPPER POTTSGROVE COMMISSIONER (Vote For Not More Than Two) unofficial results:

Rep - Renee Spaide 273 33.87%

Rep - Elwood A. Taylor 309 38.34%

Dem - John H. West, Jr. 224 27.79%

11:30 p.m. CONFIRMED: Castor and Brown have conceded the Montco Commissioners race to . Story momentarily. - Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

11:28 p.m. LOWER POTTSGROVE COMMISSIONER (Vote for Not More Than Three) unofficial results: 

Rep - Bruce L. Foltz 212 32.27%

Rep - Steve Klotz 215 32.72%

Rep - Jonathan H. Spadt 140 21.31%

Dem - P.J. McGill 90 13.70%

11:27 p.m.  WARD 6 (Vote for One) unofficial results:

Rep - Jody Rhoads 418 100.00%

11:26 p.m. POTTSTOWN COUNCIL WARD 4 (Vote for One) unofficial results:

Dem - Stephen M. Toroney 222 100.00%

11:25 p.m. POTTSTOWN COUNCIL WARD 2 (Vote for One) unofficial results:

Rep - John E. Applegate 122 38.73%

Dem - Carol Lynne Kulp 193 61.27%

11:20 p.m. POTTSGROVE SCHOOL DIRECTOR (Vote for Not More Than Five) unofficial results: 

Rep - Patti Grimm 1,021 20.26%

Rep - C. David Faulkner 1,003 19.90%

Rep - Justin Valentine 1,027 20.38%

Rep - Theodore C. Coffelt 986 19.57%

Rep - Jodi Adams 1,002 19.88%

11:19 p.m. With 69 percent of precincts in, Shapiro Richards widens lead over Castor & Brown to 4-5 percent. Latter reportedly conceding soon. Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

11:15 p.m. POTTSTOWN SCHOOL DIRECTOR (Vote for Not More Than Five) unofficial results: 

Rep - Dennis L. Wausnock 1,884 17.99%

Rep - W. Ronald Williams 1,912 18.26%

Rep - Michelle L. Porter 965 9.21%

Rep - Avram J. Hammer 851 8.13%

Rep - William Karl Habekost 838 8.00%

Dem - Mary-Beth Lydon 1,377 13.15%

Dem - Judyth Zahora 1,303 12.44%

Dem - Andrew Kefer 1,343 12.82%

10:14 p.m. With 17 percent of precincts reporting, the commissioners' race is now a statistical dead heat. - Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

9:46 p.m. Controversial county controller Diane Morgan (D) holds an early lead over challenger Stewart Greenleaf, Jr. (R) Lots more ballots to count. - Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

9:45 p.m. Monitor Montgomery County election results with us here: http://patch.com/A-n7dx. - Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

9:42 p.m. It appears Sheriff Behr is in control of her election contest with Will Holt. She's up 53 to 47 percent in early returns. - Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

9:41 p.m. Early returns showing Josh Shapiro, Leslie Richards with early lead over Bruce Castor & Jenny Brown for commish seats. 4 percent reporting in. - Tweet from @MontcoPatch, David Powell.

Editor's note: Election results are unofficial until certified by the county.

ELECTION DAY COVERAGE:

7:44 p.m. As the election comes to an end, Andrew Kefer, a Pottstown school board candidate on the Democratic ticket, talks of his new political experience.

"As a first time candidate, I had fun," he said. "Running for office turned out to be ... relatively simple."

The campaign process helped him better connect with the community, he said.

"You have to get out and knock on doors and meet people," Kefer said. "This system is effective ... I've learned a lot."

7:33 p.m. Jennifer Zeleznick is at the to vote.

"Most people in this whole town don't know what candidates stand for," she said. "It's our responsibility. It's our duty as citizens (to vote.)"

7:12 p.m. So far, 151 of 1,095 registered voters came to the YWCA on King Street in Pottstown to vote. A few more voters continue to arrive.

6 p.m. Brigette Landis, 17, a Pottstown High School junior, is at the YWCA on King Street in Pottstown to help with the voting process. 

She said she volunteered to help in order to learn more about voting.

"Next year I'll be voting," she said.

5:45 p.m. A steady but light flow of folks continue to arrive at the YWCA on King Street in Pottstown to vote. 

Angela Cruz, 17, a senior at Pottstown High School, is here to help with the voting process.

"More people should come out and vote," she said. 

Pottstown resident Andrew Krenzel agrees. His father -- the late Samuel Krenzel -- was a World War II U.S. Army veteran who fought for the nation's freedoms including the right to vote, he said. 

"This is the way I was raised," Krenzel said of voting.

5:30 p.m. Voter turnout is light at the YWCA on King Street in Pottstown, said Montgomery County Republican Committee person Charles Kropp. He said he'd been at the polling location since 6:30 a.m. and now, with less than three hours of voting time left, only about 10 percent of the 1,095 registered voters showed up.

"That's probably a little bit higher than normal," said Kropp, a Pottstown resident. One reason for that might be the hot school board race, he said. "We've had so much debate over 10 years on what to do with the schools."

Andrew Kefer, a school board candidate on the Democratic ticket, is outside the YWCA to campaign. 

"I was asked in March of this year to run," said Kefer - who is also a member of the Pottstown Planning Commission.

He said he had hoped for a better turnout at the polls. 

"Truthfully, that's a pretty sad number," he said of the 10 percent voter turnout. "Voter apathy is a very frustrating thing."

Dan Weand, a member of the Pottstown Borough Council, stopped by the YWCA to check in on the poll a short time ago.

"I've been watching all 10 (borough polling locations,)" he said. "I had hoped ... for a better turnout." 

Weand said he hopes more folks will vote in the time left.

"Our ancestors left Europe for that privilege," he said of voting.

3:30 p.m. Voter turnout is starting to pick up at the Lower Pottsgrove Township administration building, said Patricia Foltz while she campaigned for her husband Bruce - a candidate running on Republican and Democratic tickets for the municipality's board of commissioners.

Patricia Foltz said she voted earlier today at Berean Bible Church.

"They were lined up," she said of voters at the church around 11 a.m.

Lower Pottsgrove resident Joyce Davie is at the administration building and talks of her reason to vote. 

"It makes a difference," she said and added she voted "straight Democrat."