Tracie Fountain
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Tracie Fountain (Democratic Party) ran for election for Pennsylvania Auditor General. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 2, 2020.
Fountain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tracie Fountain was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She worked in the Pennsylvania Auditor General's office for 29 years, most recently as the Audit Bureau Director, before resigning to run for the Auditor General position. In her work for the office, Fountain directed the following bureaus: School Audits, State-Aided Audits, Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association Audits, Liquor Audits, and Children and Youth Services Audits. She is a Certified Public Accountant and earned an undergraduate degree from Drexel University.[1][2]
Elections
2020
See also: Pennsylvania Auditor election, 2020
General election
General election for Pennsylvania Auditor General
Timothy DeFoor defeated Nina Ahmad, Jennifer Moore, and Olivia Faison in the general election for Pennsylvania Auditor General on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Timothy DeFoor (R) | 49.4 | 3,338,009 |
 | Nina Ahmad (D) | 46.3 | 3,129,131 | |
 | Jennifer Moore (L) | 3.1 | 205,929 | |
 | Olivia Faison (G) | 1.2 | 78,588 | |
| Total votes: 6,751,657 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Nina Ahmad | 36.4 | 551,144 |
 | Michael Lamb | 27.1 | 410,556 | |
 | Christina Hartman | 14.0 | 211,281 | |
 | Tracie Fountain | 9.0 | 136,130 | |
 | H. Scott Conklin | 7.5 | 112,952 | |
 | Rosie Davis | 6.0 | 90,558 | |
| Total votes: 1,512,621 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General
Timothy DeFoor advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania Auditor General on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Timothy DeFoor | 100.0 | 1,042,092 |
| Total votes: 1,042,092 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Cris Dush (R)
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tracie Fountain completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fountain's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Tracie Fountain is a Certified Public Accountant and the only candidate in the race who served in the Pennsylvania Auditor General's Department for 29.5 years until September 2019, where she had to reside from her employment to run for public office. During her tenure with the Auditor General's Department, in addition to holding the positions of field supervisor and Technical Training Manager, Tracie has served as the Bureau Director for the five auditing bureaus: School Audits, State- Aided Audits, Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association Audits, Liquor Audits and Children and Youth Services Audits.
- Tracie Fountain is a Certified Public Accountant who served in Leadership positions before resigning to run in September 2019.
- Tracie Fountain is the only candidate in the race that was employed within the Auditor General's Department for 29.5 years.
- Tracie Fountain is the only candidate during the campaign trail who has presented a policy to the public regarding fiscal monitoring of grant funds awarded to non-profits in PA and its prevention of misuse of taxpayer dollars.
When Tracie begins her term as Pennsylvania's Auditor General, she will analyze and address the impact of significant legislative budget cuts on the department's ability to complete 5,000 mandated audits annually.
Tracie will provide the best possible solutions to critical issues impacting Pennsylvania families, such as prescription drug costs and ensuring the safety of Pennsylvanians' most vulnerable citizens- our children, elderly, and mentally challenged.
Martin Luther King, Jr., he was an educator first before he became a leader. I believe, public officials has the duty to educate the residents and ensure they are applying the knowledge given to their everyday lives.
Tracie developed the bus drivers' qualifications testing, which is still being used to this day, when she was the Director of School Audits. More recently, as the Director of Children and Youth Services Audits, Tracie developed a risk-based audit approach that lead to the discovery of most Children and Youth agencies' failure to monitor In-Home Providers, contracted to provide needed services to at-risk children, to ensure that contracted, and paid for services, were actually provided.
The Department of the Pennsylvania Auditor General.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 1, 2020
- ↑ Tracie for PA, "About Tracie," accessed May 15, 2020
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