WARREN, Pa. — An attempt to have ballots in Sugar Grove Township recounted by hand in the race for Pennsylvania governor has been dismissed in Warren County Court.

A petition had been filed and a hearing scheduled for Monday morning regarding a “Petition to Open Ballot Box.”

“There was a petition filed in the prothonotary office for a hand recount of Sugar Grove Township, more specifically, the governor’s race,” Elections Director Krystle Ransom said.

The Republican ticket, Doug Mastriano and Carrie DelRosso, carried Warren County 9,704 votes to 6,032 for the Democratic ticket of Josh Shapiro and Austin Davis.

The margin was even wider in Sugar Grove Township where Mastriano received 300 more votes — 477 to 177.

That trend, however, did not hold statewide.

According to state election returns, Shapiro received 56% of the vote and defeated Mastriano by 14 percentage points, or nearly 800,000 votes.

Mastriano, who ran on an election-based platform and was branded as an election denier, conceded days after the election.

Ransom said the order was dismissed in county court.

She said that the dismissal included the following language: “The petition filed in this matter does not aver a particular act of fraud or error and offers no prima facie evidence of the same.”

Regarding the underlying complaint, Ransom described it as “very general.

“Most counties received this petition,” she said.