Updated at 5:10 p.m.

With just a few hours left to vote in the recall election of Mayor Plusquellic voter turnout remains light.

Summit County Board of Elections Director Marijean Donofrio says according to trouble shooters in the field, "we have doubled what they were about 10:00 this morning as far as how many voters have been to those specific precincts".

Listen to Marijean Donofrio give an afternoon voting update

She says wards seven and eight have had the heaviest traffic. Ward six is coming on strong as well. Traffic has been steady all day but no one is breaking down the doors says Donofrio.  She thinks turnout will be in the ten to 15 percent range.

As for trouble, Donofrio says it's been minimal. She says nothing more or less than on a normal election.

Updated at 3:25 p.m.

AkronNewsNow's Mike Glass says there is some activity with voters at the First Baptist Church of Akron on Shatto Avenue. Wards 7 and 8 seem to have considerable turnout, for a Special Election, with people in favor of keeping Plusquellic in office.

 

Glass sets the voting scene on the West side of Akron

 

It's taking people only about five minutes to get in, vote, and get out.

Glass says it's much different than in other elections. Today, the only thing outside to indicate a polling location is an American flag - there are no signs posted and no one wearing any sort of attire to show their support for or against the recall effort. 

Donofrio says there have been only a couple of minor problems so far. She says a morning equipment problem at one polling place was corrected when they finally installed new memory cards, and she says a couple of poll workers overslept. Other than that the election process has run smoothly so far.

Polls are open until 7:30pm.