Low Turnout in the 5th District
From The Blade:
Some 14.5 percent of Lucas County’s registered voters had cast their ballots as of 1 p.m., Marty Limmer, a Lucas information technology employee, said.
Jill Kelly, executive director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, was holding out hope that voting will pick up as people get off work.
In Hancock County, where damage from August flooding resulted in a shortage of voting machines, forecasts of long lines haven’t panned out.
“It’s unfortunate, but I think the weather has had something to do with it,” Jody O’Brien, Hancock’s deputy elections director, said.
Wood County elections officials were in a staff meeting this afternoon and unavailable for comment, although one employee said no major glitches had been reported there.
With the weather and the lack of interest in this election, turnout is hardly surprising. But I wonder if this helps Buehrer or Latta? And how much will absentee votes matter in this election, and every Ohio election going into the future, now that Ohio voters can vote at home without giving an excuse?
