{"id":130750,"date":"2020-04-27T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=130750"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:51:09","slug":"primary-1st-election-without-direct-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/primary-1st-election-without-direct-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 1st election without  direct voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many of the ballots for Tuesday&#8217;s delayed primary election have already been mailed in, ballots can be delivered to the Van Wert County Board of Elections office from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters have two options for delivering ballots. They can either leave the ballots in a drop box on the Jennings Road side of the building or enter the office on the Ervin Road side and place them on the counter inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Elections Director Brenda Weaver said elections staff members will check the drop box regularly, and will begin tabulating all ballots when the polls close at 7:30 Tuesday evening, unless voting problems in a county or counties would force Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to keep the polls open longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problems could possibly arise, especially since this is the first state election held by mail without direct voting at a polling place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weaver said election results would be placed on the Board of Elections website as soon as they are compiled, barring any delays in closing polling sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent While many of the ballots for Tuesday&#8217;s delayed primary election have already been mailed in, ballots can be delivered to the Van Wert County Board of Elections office from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Voters have two options for delivering ballots. They can either leave the ballots in a drop box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 07:35:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}