Ex-director of elections in Ohio county pleads guilty

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A former county elections board director accused of stealing money from the local Democratic Party has pleaded guilty to one count of theft in office.

Forty-seven-year-old Tippi Slaughter entered the plea today in Butler County Common Pleas Court in Hamilton. She was accused of taking approximately $1,700 from the bank account of the Butler County Democratic Party when she was its treasurer.

Slaughter was indicted in June on counts of theft in office and fired by the elections board. Party officials said she paid the group back before resigning as treasurer.

She could get up to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine at her Sept. 21 sentencing.

Slaughter was appointed to head Butler County’s elections board in January.