Saturday, November 06, 1999
Tongue-twister name didn't stop voters from writing him in
Jaroszewicz wins school board seat
BY CHRISTINE WOLFF
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Thaddeus “Ted” Jaroszewicz took on what some might call an impossible mission with his tongue-twisting last name: Running for a school board seat as a write-in candidate.
Not so impossible. He won.
Though results are unofficial until certified Nov. 15, it appears Mr. Jaroszewicz won election Tuesday to the Indian Hill Exempted Village school board.
Adding to the oddity: His opponent, John Harder, of Sycamore Township, also was a write-in candidate.
The unofficial final count: Mr. Jaroszewicz, 808 votes; Mr. Harder, 651 votes.
Mr. Jaroszewicz's campaign ace: Pencils bearing his name.
The two men entered the race after an incumbent, Lyle Fiore, decided not to run. That left incumbent Patti English running alone for two board seats.
Unfortunately, the two missed the deadline for getting their names printed on Tuesday's ballot. So they registered as write-in candidates.
“I found I had to run a campaign on not only the issues but also educating voters about write-in candidates, and why I was running as a write-in,” said Mr. Jaroszewicz, of Indian Hill.
Early in the campaign, he talked to the Hamilton County Board of Elections and posed his dilemma.
“I said, "Look, I have an 11-letter last name with seven consonants in it.' (The director) said, "If it's close, I will count it.'”
The Polish surname “Jaroszewicz” is a “classic write-in name,” said Kathy Curran, an administrative assistant at the elections board.
“People have to make an attempt,” she said. “It's the intent of the voter that counts.”
In the Princeton school board, meanwhile, voters faced a situation opposite that of Indian Hill: Nine candidates running for three seats.
The unofficial tally is close — only nine votes separate the third and fourth-place finishers. Elections officials will decide after certification Nov. 15 whether to recount the Princeton race, Ms. Curran said.
Until then, George Keyser waits, nine votes ahead of opponent Paul Kattelman.
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