The voters of Luzerne County will decide who will hold court in Wilkes-Barre.
Up for grabs are two open seats on the Court of Common Pleas and on the eve of the election the three candidates vying for a seat hit the campaign trail.
Republican candidate Richard Hughes went door to door in Wilkes-Barre. "This is such an important campaign," said Hughes. "I'm really hoping that a big vote comes out and we can put two qualified people on the bench and start the road to recovery."
Democratic candidate Tina Polachek Gartley spent the evening greeting voters in a Larksville community.
"We have no regrets, we have been grass roots, we have been everywhere, we're door to door knocking the night before, we did exactly what we intended to do," said Gartley.
Democrat William Amesbury rallied with campaign workers at a restaurant in Wyoming.
"It's the night before an election, everybody's coming out, they're going to get their assignments, they're going to get their cards, they're going out, they're going to rally the vote," said Amesbury.
This judicial election comes amid a federal corruption investigation in Luzerne County and two former judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan each face multiple counts of corruption.
With scandal hanging over the county court system, all three candidates thanked their opponents for running clean and positive campaigns.
"The people who ran for this office did an absolutely wonderful job," said Amesbury. "We made a model for all judicial races and I say that on all the candidates."
Also on the ballot for Luzerne County is a retention vote for two currently seated judges, Thomas Burke and Peter Paul Olszewski.
Up for grabs are two open seats on the Court of Common Pleas and on the eve of the election the three candidates vying for a seat hit the campaign trail.
Republican candidate Richard Hughes went door to door in Wilkes-Barre. "This is such an important campaign," said Hughes. "I'm really hoping that a big vote comes out and we can put two qualified people on the bench and start the road to recovery."
Democratic candidate Tina Polachek Gartley spent the evening greeting voters in a Larksville community.
"We have no regrets, we have been grass roots, we have been everywhere, we're door to door knocking the night before, we did exactly what we intended to do," said Gartley.
Democrat William Amesbury rallied with campaign workers at a restaurant in Wyoming.
"It's the night before an election, everybody's coming out, they're going to get their assignments, they're going to get their cards, they're going out, they're going to rally the vote," said Amesbury.
This judicial election comes amid a federal corruption investigation in Luzerne County and two former judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan each face multiple counts of corruption.
With scandal hanging over the county court system, all three candidates thanked their opponents for running clean and positive campaigns.
"The people who ran for this office did an absolutely wonderful job," said Amesbury. "We made a model for all judicial races and I say that on all the candidates."
Also on the ballot for Luzerne County is a retention vote for two currently seated judges, Thomas Burke and Peter Paul Olszewski.
