More is at the above link but the basics:
And as of 9 a.m., voter turnout was about 3.5 percent for the county.“I think that’s low,” said Jill Kelly, director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, pointing out that average turnout for a partisan primary is between 22 and 25 percent for the day. Ms. Kelly had no number to compare to the 9 a.m. total from previous elections.Ms. Kelly said there were some “slow starts” at several stations — she declined to say how many — where several machines weren’t running.
With about 50 poll workers having called off, Ms. Kelly is down to 1,930 workers of the needed 1,980; she said no “fill-in,” or replacement workers, were found.“We were disappointed,” Ms. Kelly said, saying it was difficult to train people last-minute. “When that happens on the eleventh hour, what do you do?”
I will most likely be live blogging what results I can access for tonight as they come in. In addition Paul Miller told me that live blog numbers for Ohio will be done at State of Ohio Blog Alliance fondly known as the Conservative SOB's and he will be doing live blog updates on Northwestern Ohio on his blog Newshound
If I find out any other online sources for results I'll post them here. The tabulation and recording may go slow but we do have the blogging aspect of this down. Hope you voted, I haven't yet, I have to wait till Miguel gets off work but I'll let you know how busy my polling place is and what I can find out from the poll workers present.
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As an update, Eric over at Plunderbund is working the polls in Delaware County...so it's not just Lucas County that is slow. To quote Eric?
Wifi! Woohoo! Word of the day: S L O W. Pretty much sums it up. Slow as all get out where I’m at in Delaware County. Not one single line or wait…other than poll workers waiting on voters. If your horse benefits from a slow race, you are in the money!
My update...Just got back from voting, my new polling place was pretty empty, no waiting I was voter number 74 for my district. This was my first time with the touch screen, last time I used the optical scanner. While I don't like the view print option part of the touch screen, I think it was okay. I still liked the old pull the curtain lever type machines but if this ends up actually working faster and more accurate? Touch screen for me was easier and faster than the optical scanner.
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I was at the poll with the 2nd highest number of registered-votes from 6:30 through 1:00 PM and there couldn't have been more than 300 wet voters there during that time.
I bet the final percentage will be 15%.
Are the voters turned off due to the actions of their elected officials?
Or, do the officials get elected because a small, ignorant knot of people show up?
Probably a combination of both, this will be my first time voting at this new polling place, I know my old one was never busy and was within walking distance which this new one isn't.
I do miss that as I used to always vote earlier, I'd walk over after the girls got on the school bus.
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Lisa - glad you'll be doing blogging tonight. How will you be getting the results? Do you plan on hanging out down at Government Center?
just curious ...
I'd normally consider hanging out at the BOE but, it's Miguel's birthday and he takes priority even over my desire to get voting results so I'll be doing it from here.
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that's okay...having a spouse who's spent many a night at the BOE, I can tell you that it's overrated.
Looking forward to your coverage - and thanks...this way my family can watch NCIS and House and I can keep current with what's going on.
I just double checked with the Board of Elections for Lucas County and they aren't going to be doing the web feature that they had during the last primary sooo it's going to be a rely on the media situation.
Or phone calls from anyone who is down there.
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For those that didn't see the webversion I'm talking about
This is what they did do, which they haven't been able to return to.
Lisa - with the new voting technology that's security protected, it's quite a process to get the downloaded data from the election system, then upload into the county's secured system...at least, that's my understanding...which is why the Auditor's office hasn't done their real-time website in a couple of elections.
I was listening to Fred this morning and a few callers reported things like, "Only one of the ten machines at our polling place was working," and "Seventy percent of the machines were down."
It was disheartening, but the reports were minimal and were apparently cleared up.
When "Mrs. T" and I voted after work, only one machine at our polling place was down.
Is there anything to the report that the printer paper alignment was causing most of the malfunctions?
I seem to remember (from somewhere, I don’t remember) that paper misalignment will keep a machine from working.
Hooda, I heard they were going to check the paper/print alignment last night because that was an issue but maybe with the lessor numbers of poll workers they couldn't do that.
Maggie, that could very well be a part of it, the very nice gentleman I spoke to told me it was part new technology with the touch screens as well as the poll worker issue. He said they hoped to be able to do that again in the future. I hope so too, it seems like most of the counties are reporting their information online.
The state has the system set up which will report county information as they receive it but will of course not deal with county candidates only state ones.
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