Your Last-Minute Voting Guide: Who?, What?, Where?, When? and Why?

Primary elections day is here, and Baldwin-Whitehall will see  this Tuesday. In addition, a number of will be affected by votes from Baldwin-Whitehall residents.

The Who?: In some of Tuesday's primary races—Baldwin Borough Council Democrats and Republicans, Baldwin Township Board of Commissioners Democrats and Republicans, and Whitehall Borough Council Republicans—the number of nominees per party is equal to or less than the number of seats open. In those cases, the candidates have a better opportunity of securing nominations since only write-in candidates (with enough votes) could capture one of their party's nominations ahead of them.

The races for Whitehall Council Democratic and Baldwin-Whitehall School Board nominations are much more heated, though. The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch offers you the following political profiles for those races:

WHITEHALL BOROUGH COUNCIL DEMOCRATS

BALDWIN-WHITEHALL SCHOOL BOARD

• Laurencine Romack, Larry Pantuso, Kevin J. Fischer, Sam DiNardo Jr., Diana Kazour and Ray Rosing ()
• Marion M. Shannon, Kevin A. Stiffey, Lora J. Kalwarski, Richard J. Kirsch and Tracy Macek ()

A reminder: Voters do not have to vote for a committee as a whole but can instead decide to vote for select members of each committee.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY ELECTIONS

Also in the May 17 primaries, voters will choose the candidates who will appear on November ballots in .

The What?: The purpose of primary elections is for each party to choose their candidate(s) for November's general elections.

The Where? The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch published a where-to-vote guide on May 10. Read it .

The When? In Pennsylvania, polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Why? In some places, voting is not a given. In the United States, voting is your right. No matter how you feel, you should express your opinions at the polls.