Tracie Fountain

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Tracie Fountain

Democratic Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

June 2, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

Drexel University

Personal

Birthplace

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Religion

Christian

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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.

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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	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

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	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

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Cris Dush (R)

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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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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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

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.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• 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.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

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.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

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.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

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.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

The Department of the Pennsylvania Auditor General.

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