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| 11/20/2009 11:03:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article | County Board of Elections certifies Nov. 3 voting results
Wayne Boblitt
Press staff
The Brown County Board of Elections counted 220 provisional ballots and 12 absentee ballots this past Tuesday, Nov. 17, and released its official count from political race and ballot issue voting on Nov. 3.
The Board's certifying of the official election figures didn't change any results from unofficial figures on the General Election night two weeks previously.
Political candidates in very tight races who appeared to have lost following vote counting on Nov. 3 in fact did lose, according to the official figures.
Certifying Ran Smoothly
BCBE Director Sue McIntosh said the provisional vote counting and official election result certifying began about 11 a.m. this past Tuesday and concluded about 2:30 p.m. with everything running smoothly.
McIntosh explained provisional votes are votes that have to be examined and approved by the Elections Board before they are included in an official vote count. Provisional votes include, for example, those from voters who have moved to a new Brown County precinct, have moved to Brown County from another county or state, or who have changed a name such as in the case of marriage.
The Board has to ensure a provisional voter was eligible to vote on Election Day in the Brown County precinct where he or she cast a ballot and to make sure he or she didn't cast ballots at more than one polling site on Election Day.
The Elections Board members who certified the Nov. 3 results include two Republicans, Chairman Bill Herdman and Paul Hall II, and two Democrats, Linda Ondre and Ralph Quallen.
Ten Officeholders Lose
Ten current officeholders who lost their re-election bids in this year's General Election, with the final official vote tabulating and certification completed by the Elections Board, include:
• Patrick Elliott, who placed seventh out of eight candidates in the Higginsport Village Council race (the top four candidates were elected). With 31 votes, Elliott was 13 votes behind fourth-place finisher Eddie Crawford Jr., who won a seat.
• Frederick Hansen, who placed fifth out of five candidates in the Mt. Orab Village Council race (the top four candidates were elected). With 296 votes, Hansen was only five votes behind fourth-place finisher Daniel Reed, who won a seat.
(A story in the Nov. 8 edition of The Brown County Press mistakenly reported Hansen had received 95 votes in the unofficial count on Nov. 3 when he actually had received 295 at that time.)
• Michael Copple, who placed third out of three candidates in the Byrd Township Board of Trustees race (the top two candidates were elected). With 135 votes, Copple finished only three votes behind second-place finisher Steve Evans, who won a seat.
• Tim Steinman, who placed third out of three candidates in the Franklin Township Board of Trustees race (the top two candidates were elected). With 299 votes, Steinman finished 49 votes behind second-place finisher Nicholas Dailey, who won a seat.
• Michael Napier, who placed third out of four candidates in the Pleasant Township Board of Trustees race (the top two candidates were elected). With 639 votes, Napier finished 40 votes behind second-place finisher Dennis Daulton, who won a seat.
• Steve Mezger, who placed third out of eight candidates in the Sterling Township Board of Trustees race (the top two candidates were elected). With 323 votes, Mezger finished 18 votes behind second-place finisher Joseph Horton, who won a seat.
• Myron Flaugher, who placed third out of four candidates in the Union Township Board of Trustees race (the top two candidates were elected). With 403 votes, Flaugher finished only nine votes behind second-place finisher Martin Plymesser, who won a seat.
• K.O. Martin, who placed third out of three candidates in the Washington Township Board of Trustees race (the top two candidates were elected). With 365 votes, Martin finished 31 votes behind second-place finisher Matthew Latham, who won a seat.
• Vernon Taylor, who placed third out of six candidates in the Eastern Local School District Board of Education race (the top two candidates were elected). With 978 votes, Taylor finished 68 votes behind second-place finisher Brian Garrett, who won a seat.
The official vote totals from Brown County in the Eastern School Board race do not include vote totals from some small portions of Adams and Highland counties that also are in the Eastern Local School District.
• Dennis Wright, who placed third out of three candidates in the Western Brown Local School District Board of Education race (the top two candidates were elected). With 1,698 votes, Wright finished 162 votes behind second-place finisher Michael Kirk, who won a seat.
Issue, Levy Results Given
Two Brown County levy issues, three statewide state constitutional amendment ballot measures, and eight township and village levy issues also were on the Brown County ballot on Nov. 3.
Both county levies passed, the three statewide measures passed both in the county and in Ohio as an entirety, and five of the eight township and village levy issues passed.
Official results for those levy issues and ballot measures are as follow:
• The Brown County Public Library District's and the Union Township Public Library District's combined 1-mill, five-year additional levy for operating expenses: 6,915 for, 5,812 against.
• The Brown County Board of Developmental Disabilities' 1-mill continuing replacement levy for operating expenses: 7,608 for, 4,977 against.
• State Issue 1 (state compensation to veterans of the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts): 9,029 for, 3,373 against.
• State Issue 2 (establishment of an Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board): 9,599 for, 3,120 against.
• State Issue 3 (allowing the placing of one casino each in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo): 8,236 for, 4,629 against.
• Aberdeen 5-mill, five-year renewal levy to fund current operating expenses: 306 against, 251 for.
• Hamersville 2-mill, five-year additional levy to fund current operating expenses: 68 against, 26 for.
• Higginsport 1.6-mill, five-year replacement levy to fund current operating expenses: 60 for, 40 against.
• Sardinia 2.5-mill, five-year additional levy for maintaining and operating a cemetery: 117 against, 102 for.
• Sardinia 2-mill, five-year replacement levy for fire department operating expenses: 125 for, 93 against.
• Byrd Township 1-mill, five-year renewal levy for cemetery maintenance and operating expenses: 170 for, 127 against.
• Perry Township 2-mill, three-year renewal levy to fund Emergency Medical Services: 902 for, 482 against.
• Perry Township 2.5-mill, five-year renewal levy to provide additional funds for fire protection: 933 for, 502 against. (Voters casting ballots on both the EMS levy and the fire levy in Perry Township included those in the unincorporated portions of that township such as Lake Lorelei and Chasetown as well as those in the incorporated villages of Fayetteville and St. Martin.)
BCBE reported 12,975 of Brown County's 28,725 registered voters cast ballots on Nov. 3 for a 45.17 percent, a respectable percentage during a year in which there was not an election for U.S. president, Ohio governor, or federal or state legislative offices on the ballot.
"We thought that was pretty good for an 'off year'," McIntosh said of this year's General Election voting percentage.
Anyone wishing to view all the official Brown County voting results may access www.electionsonthe.net and then select "Ohio" and then select "Brown County" on a map outlining Ohio's 88 counties.
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