Clark County Board of Elections director Jason Baker said the Board expects a voter turnout of 20%, similar to turnouts seen in 2017 and 2019. As of Tuesday afternoon, Clark County’s voter turnout sat at 16%.
In New Carlisle, voters came in a steady flow to the Tecumseh High School polling station, voting location manager Pam Baldridge said. Voter turnout was less than what Baldridge witnessed during last year’s general election, with a couple hundred registered voters casting their ballot out of the more than 3,000 registered voters in the polling place’s precinct as of Tuesday afternoon.
The polling location encountered a minor issue in that voters had to bend the perforation of the ballot sheets several times before they could process them through the voting machines, Baldridge said.
Marsha Crockran, who was working at the Fulton School polling station in Springfield, said voters came in sporadically throughout the day, a change in pace from the presidential election last year.
At the Knob Prairie United Church polling station in Enon, voting location manager Larry Borders said people came in to cast their ballots at a “steady” pace. No technical difficulties happened at the polling place as of Tuesday afternoon.
However, several voters living in incorporated areas in Mad River Twp. said they were disappointed because they were unable to vote on the referendum that challenges the rezoning of land eyed by a development company for a housing community on Stine Road, Borders said. Only Mad River Twp. residents living in unincorporated areas of the township could vote on this referendum.
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