Deputy Director Eric Corbin said they have had a couple of instances of unruly voters, which is understandable, as “there are sensitive issues this election people are really concerned about.”
“We haven’t had too many issues, we’ve gotten some calls, people have complained about some of the campaigners they disagree with,” he said. “But every time we’ve called and talked to our poll workers, they said that person has been outside the 100-foot zone, so there’s not too much we can do. We’re hoping it doesn’t get so hot we have to take any further action.”
Butler County Board of Elections Director Nicole Unzicker agreed it’s been a steady of stream of voters and “only two issues with campaigners isn’t bad out of 86 locations.”
Corbin said early voting totals will be available on their website by 7:45 p.m. and tallies will be refreshed every half hour after. He predicted a 40% turnout when typically local November contests are not highly attended. In November 2021, the turnout was 19.7%.
The detour that was looping voters around the bottleneck at Hampshire Drive has been removed.
Polls in Ohio closed at 7:30 p.m. today. The postmark deadline for mailed-in absentee ballots was Monday.
Voters who did not mail their ballots on Monday had until 7:30 p.m. on Election Day to turn in their ballots to their local election boards or drop off their ballots in the county’s drop box.
Issues 1 and 2 — statewide issues related to abortion and adult-use marijuana legalization, respectively — had attracted the most attention.
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