{"id":202044,"date":"2026-01-28T22:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202044"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:20:04","slug":"race-to-be-held-for-county-auditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/28\/race-to-be-held-for-county-auditor\/","title":{"rendered":"Race to be held for county auditor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be a Republican primary run-off for Van Wert County Auditor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Records from the Van Wert County Board of Elections show incumbent Jami Bradford has filed petitions to appear on the May 5 primary election. She\u2019s being challenged by Arica Wermer, a deputy auditor with the City of Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, just one other primary race is on the May ballot. As previously reported by <em>the VW independent<\/em>, Van Wert County Prosecutor Eva Yarger and Van Wert City Law Director John Hatcher have filed petitions to seek the GOP nod for Juvenile\/Probate Court judge (see story <a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/18\/hatcher-yarger-seeking-local-judgeship\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The filing deadline is next Wednesday, February 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff There will be a Republican primary run-off for Van Wert County Auditor. Records from the Van Wert County Board of Elections show incumbent Jami Bradford has filed petitions to appear on the May 5 primary election. She\u2019s being challenged by Arica Wermer, a deputy auditor with the City of Van Wert. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:37:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202059,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202044\/revisions\/202059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}