New Era staffer Bernie Harris confirming what we reported on Thursday:

Lancaster County elections officials confirmed with an official count that former Lancaster Mayor Charlie Smithgall received enough write-in votes on Tuesday to be placed on the November general election ballot as the Republican nominee. Smithgall needed 100 votes. He received 135 or more, depending on how they are counted, according to elections officials. There were 96 votes for Charlie Smithgall, 39 for Charles Smithgall and about a dozen other votes for some variation or misspelling of Smithgall’s name.