ELECTION UPDATE | Trumbull sending generators, paper ballots

WARREN

The Trumbull County Board of Elections has sent six generators to the polling places in about eight communities that lost power because of high winds starting around 4 p.m. today.

The Trumbull County Sheriff's office and the county commissioners are providing additional generators to restore power to the rest, said Stephanie Penrose, director of the Trumbull County Board of Elections.

To provide voters with an alternate way to vote, the elections board is sending paper ballots to those communities. In all, 21 precincts lost power. Some polling locations have multiple precincts.

The communities whose polling places have been affected are Bloomfield, Mesopotamia, Southington, Farmington, Newton Falls, Bristol, Lordstown and Warren Township and Braceville, which got its power back at around 6 p.m.

The number of power outages in Trumbull County is down to 4,448 after peaking at about 14,000 outages around 4 p.m. due to severe weather.

Warren city, which had over 2,000 outages reported, is now down to 734, and Warren Township is down to 529.

In Mahoning County, there are 255 outages.