Officials at the Summit County Board of Elections began releasing results around 9:30 p.m.

 

Blank ballots were sent to Twinsburg, Norton, Green and Tallmadge, and voters who were in line at 7:30 p.m. were allowed to vote on the new ballots.

 

Voter turnout in Summit County far exceeded expectations and slowed down the process of tabulating results.

 

Summit County Board of Elections Director Marijean Donofrio says they didn't think so many people would cast ballots in an off year.

 

"Little did we know that Issue 3 was going to bring out this many voters," Donofrio said.

  

 

At approximately 5:04 p.m., the Secretary of State's office gave permission to the Summit County Board of Elections main office to photocopy ballots.

All ballot supplies in the 475 precincts located in the county's 198 polling locations were marked with a divider sheet at the 25% point to alert poll workers that ballot supplies had reached 25% of available ballots for the precinct. Poll workers, supplied with cell phones by the board of elections, had been instructed to call the board at the point that ballot supplies reached 25% so that more ballots if needed could be supplied. Areas of critical need have been Twinsburg, where there is a .25% tax increase on the ballot; Green, where there is a school issue; and Tallmadge. At least 19,000 additional ballots have been printed with the board's four ballot-on-demand printers, with areas of greatest depletion and those furthest from the board offices being served first.

The polls in Summit County were supposed to close at 7:30 p.m., but are still open in Tallmadge, Green, Norton and Twinsburg. 

 

If you have any questions, you may call the board of elections at 1-330-643-5200 or the Secretary of State's voter hotline at 1-877-868-3874.