YOUNGSTOWN — The West Branch school board race has changed again after the Mahoning County Board of Elections held reconsideration hearings Tuesday.

The board agreed to put Tonya Dean on the ballot for a West Branch school board seat. Dean filed with 28 signatures. She needed 25 to qualify and the board last month determined 24 were valid.

Dean provided three notarized affidavits — one person printed his name, one had an illegible signature and one used a P.O. Box instead of her address. The board didn’t rule on each of the three individually, but determined Dean had enough valid signatures.

While Dean was returned to the ballot for West Branch school board, the elections board on Tuesday rejected appeals from incumbent Joseph Matthew Courtwright and Karen Sue Harris for reconsideration. Courtwright failed to fill out his circulator’s statement and the date on Harris’ declaration of candidacy is after signatures were collected. Both are considered fatal flaws under state law.

The board also decertified David M. Yaggi as a West Branch school board candidate Tuesday after the Columbiana County Board of Elections found Yaggi, an incumbent, signed a petition after circulating it. The school district includes parts of Mahoning, Columbiana and Stark counties.

Additionally, incumbent, Bryan Hobbins, withdrew from the race Tuesday, according to the ballot published on the board of elections website.

The ballot will now include the following candidates for the full term: Dean, Penny DeShields, Angela Howell, Samuel Jennings and Peggy Jo Shaver. Incumbent Deborah Helm and Svetlana Herron are running for the one unexpired term.

(David Skolnick contributed to this story)