Sparse voter turnout for Pennsylvania primary election; votes start being counted

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto stands on the corner of Fifth and Shady avenues on Tuesday, holding a sign that reads “Will work 4 vote.”

Tom and Marie Haluscak exit the Church of God Church in Lower Burrell after voting in the First Ward 2nd Precinct voting location on Tuesday.

A voter talks to Magisterial District Judge candidate for Mt. Lebanon and Dormont Lisa Borrelli Dorn as Sandy Abate (from left), Paul Battisti and Matthew Clark hand out literature for the candidates they support outside the polling place at St. Bernard Church in Mt. Lebanon on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.

Signs outside the Allegheny Township Municipal Building in Westmoreland County on Primary Day, May 18, 2021.

People enter the Allegheny Township Municipal Building in Westmoreland County on early on Primary Day, May 18, 2021.

Voters are seen at the polling place inside the Korbett family’s South Side Slopes garage on Tuesday.

Tiffany Randall sits outside a polling place along Centre Avenue in Shadyside waiting to pass out literature for Sabrina Korbel, candidate for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, to voters on Tuesday.

Voters in Unity file in to the SonRise Church along Frye Farm Road on Tuesday to fill out primary ballots in the Dennison precinct. The line of voters circled around the parking lot in the 2020 presidential election.