An original ballot for the Yellow Springs Village Council that should have said “Vote for 3,” candidates, instead said “Vote for 2.” The Board of Elections cited a wrong date at the end of a council member’s term as the reason for the error.
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Additionally, an error was discovered with an uncontested race for Cedar Cliff School Board, in which a candidate running for an unexpired term was listed as running for a full term, due to “human error,” board member Kim McCarthy said.
Cedar Cliff Schools shares territory with Clark County.
Both errors were discovered after early voting started, at which point ballot language could not be changed.
1:45 A.M. UPDATE: Montgomery County posts final, unofficial results
Final, unofficial election results are posted to the Montgomery County Board of Elections website after an issue that led to results being removed from the site for several hours.
1:30 A.M. UPDATE: Montgomery County results no longer visible
The Montgomery County Board of Elections was not publishing final, unofficial results from the Nov. 7 general election to its website early Wednesday morning.
Unofficial results, which were posted earlier in the evening on Tuesday, disappeared from the county website sometime after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. They were still not displaying at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. The Dayton Daily News has the most recent results that were available — at which point the county was reporting that all precincts were counted — on the elections section of our website.
It’s unclear what led to the results not displaying on the county website. Election officials were working in the tabulation room. An election officials told a reporter posted outside the tabulation room that they identified an issue with the way results were displaying and would have updated results posted soon.
11:45 P.M. UPDATE: Major school levy rejected
Centerville voters rejected a permanent 5.9-mill additional tax school levy by a nearly 57-to-43 ratio Tuesday, according to final, unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
School districts whose voters also did not approve new levies included Greeneview, Northmont, Milton-Union and Vandalia-Butler.
11 P.M. UPDATE: Trotwood mayor race very close
Unofficial final results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections show voters sided with mayoral challenger Yvette Page over incumbent Mary McDonald by a small margin.
Page received 50.99% (2,996) of the votes, while McDonald received 49.01% (2,880), according to the unofficial results.
10:45 P.M. UPDATE: Dayton city commission incumbents prevail
Final, unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections show voters siding with incumbents Matt Joseph and Chris Shaw for Dayton city commission.
Joseph was the top vote-getter for his third consecutive election, winning 33.3% of the vote, while Shaw got about 30.7% of the vote. Duncan received 22.6% of the vote, while Bedinger earned 13.4%, according to unofficial results.
10:15 P.M. UPDATE: Early votes show Harveysburg residents prefer to not dissolve village
Early voting residents in the village of Harveysburg voted to keep their village by 28 votes, according to unofficial election results.
In early voting, residents voted 60% to 40% against a measure to surrender the village’s corporate powers, according to the Warren County Board of Elections.
10 P.M. UPDATE: Ballot initiatives for abortion, recreational marijuana pass
Ohio voters passed both Issue 1 and Issue 2 — ballot initiatives that would enshrine abortion to Ohio’s Constitution and create a legal adult-use recreational marijuana program, respectively — according to the Associated Press, which called the race in favor of the issue at 9:33 p.m. Tuesday.
9 P.M. UPDATE: Montgomery County reporting early voting, absentee results
A total of 400,521 early and absentee ballots have been counted by the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
This accounts for 11.17% of voter turnout, according to preliminary results.
Unofficial results for Election Day voting are still pending.
8:30 P.M. UPDATE: Delay in Montgomery County ballot results
An incident at the Miamisburg Christian Church polling location put a pause to processing Montgomery County election results.
Montgomery County Board of Elections Director Jeff Rezabek said a person experiencing a mental health incident was at the polling location and shouting. Police were called to the location.
“I stopped the process here locally, just to make sure my staff was safe and to make sure that we’re doing everything accurately and correctly,” Rezabek said.
One person was detained after a poll worker said that a voter was creating an “uncomfortable circumstance” at the Miamisburg Christian Church at 1146 E. Central Ave. at about 7:33 p.m., according to the Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center records.
Unofficial results are expected to roll in later tonight, according to elections officials.
8 P.M. UPDATE: Greene County levies see mixed results
Greene County was the first county to post absentee results for Tuesday’s general election.
A total of 31,577 absentee and early voting ballots have been counted as of Tuesday evening.
Roughly 61% of voters tallied so far oppose Beavercreek’s proposed 1.93-mill parks levy, according to initial, unofficial ballot results.
The levy would help build Beavercreek’s Spring House Park if passed.
Countywide, three renewal levies are all passing by wide margins, according to preliminary results.
A total of 66% of voters have voted in favor of both the senior citizens levy and the children services levy, and 63% of voters so far have voter in favor of the developmental disabilities levy.
ORIGINAL POST
Polling locations for Tuesday’s general election closed across the state at 7:30 p.m., and unofficial election results are beginning to roll in.
The outcome of most races will be known by the end of the night, although as usual, a few will head to recounts in the coming weeks.
In addition to the abortion and marijuana issues, many voters voted for their mayors, township leaders, and school board and city council members for the next four years. Others cast ballots on tax increases or renewals for schools, police and fire services, roadwork and a host of other purposes.
Readers can find live results tonight at their local Cox news websites: DaytonDailyNews.com, SpringfieldNewsSun.com or Journal-News.com.
