Karen Ramsburg polled over 1,400 write-ins in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary on April 24, for U.S. House, 9th district. Because she received over 1,000 write-ins, and because the law requires a write-in candidate in a partisan primary to receive that many write-ins to be nominated (assuming the write-in candidate outpolls everyone else running for that same office in the same primary), she will be the Democratic nominee. No name had been printed on the Democratic primary ballot for that office.

If she had not won the Democratic primary, she was getting ready to become an independent candidate.