Snyder County’s new election director passes his first big test. Next comes November.

A man wearing a red and white striped suit stands behind a desk holding a phone to his ear. There two boxes of ballots in envelops on the table.

Snyder County Election Director Devin Rhoads fields calls during Pennsylvania’s primary election. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

A large colonial style brick building with a blue sky in the background.

The Snyder County Courthouse and Election Office in Middleburg, Pennsylvania. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

A woman with short gray hair works behind a glass window.

Stacy Guyer uses a pink highlighter to mark off the names corresponding to the mail ballot request list as she verifies the ballots that have been scanned in. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

A man wearing a red and white striped suit sits at a desk behind computer screens and holds a phone to his ear.

Snyder County Election Director Devin Rhoads fields calls during Pennsylvania’s primary election. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

A stack of ballots spread out with white, blue, red and black ink.

Snyder County official primary ballots with blue lines signifying Democratic ballots and red lines signifying Republican. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

a man wearing a red and white striped suit knocks on a door.

Snyder County Election Director Devin Rhoads and election intern Maggie Bachman knock on the door of the Middleburg post office in order to retrieve the last mail ballots of the day. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

Two people stand and work from a desk with papers and various things.

Snyder County Election Director Devin Rhoads reviews the results of a precinct’s return as election worker Stacy Guyer collects election materials. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

A person wearing a red sweater holds ballots and uses a small machine on a table.

Mail ballots are time stamped when they are received. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

a man wearing a red and white striped suit answers the phone while sitting at a desk behind a computer screen.

Snyder County Election Director Devin Rhoads fields calls during Pennsylvania’s primary election. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

Two people stands over a table with stacks of paper across it.

Election clerk Tony Phillips and election intern Maggie Bachman sort the mail ballots received on Election Day into precincts. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)

Four columns of paper pined to a cork board.

Precinct voting results posted inside the election office building. (Sue Dorfman for Votebeat)