trumbull county election results Several factors contributed to delay

Staff report

WARREN

Though human error by poll workers in Braceville Township caused Trumbull County election results to be delayed about 30 minutes Tuesday night, several other factors contributed to the 12:25 a.m. completion time.

Kelly Pallante, elections board director, said she hadn’t had time Wednesday to investigate the Braceville Township problem, other than to find that Tuesday was the first time the presiding judge in that precinct had served in that role.

Pallante said she doesn’t know yet why the presiding judge and three other poll workers were not aware that they were supposed to bring the four voting machines back from the polling station at the end of voting.

Poll workers receive training prior to the election.

The Braceville poll workers brought back to the board of elections in Warren other materials from the polling station, but not the voting machines. So, workers from the elections board office drove out to the polling location and retrieved them.

The election results are stored in a memory card inside each voting machine, Pallante said.

The board released partial Trumbull election results on its website several times during the evening, including the results from 163 of the county’s 210 precincts at 10:01 p.m. Those results suggested the likely winners in most of the races and levies because most of the races were not extremely close.

Mahoning County’s elections board released its final results at 10:01 p.m.

Pallante said Trumbull County still had another 21/2 hours worth of work to do as a result of information the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, required as to votes for p resident of the United States; and work that had to be done on ballots cast by 17-year-olds.