{"id":172337,"date":"2023-11-07T04:40:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=172337"},"modified":"2023-11-07T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:01:33","slug":"vw-mayors-race-state-issues-highlight-todays-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/11\/07\/vw-mayors-race-state-issues-highlight-todays-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor’s race, state issues highlight ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is Election Day in Van Wert County and throughout Ohio and a three-way race for Van Wert mayor and State Issues 1 and 2 are among the items on today\u2019s local ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and will close at 7:30 p.m. According to Pam Henderson, Director of the Van Wert County Board of Elections, a substantial number of Van Wert County voters, 3,105, or approximately 15 percent of the county\u2019s registered voters, cast in-person ballots during the state\u2019s early voting period. Another 362 ballots were sent out by mail and of those, 318 were returned as of midday Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Results will be tallied tonight at the Van Wert County Board of Elections Office.\u00a0VW independent photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During the August special election, 2,063 ballots were cast early and voter turnout was 37 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith there being a larger turnout for early vote than August, we anticipate a larger turnout during Election Day as well,\u201d Henderson said. \u201cThe two state issues, candidate races, and tax levy renewals are of special interest to voters for this November general election. I am anticipating a voter turnout of 40 percent or more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Van Wert, voters must decide between incumbent Mayor Ken Markward or challengers Fred Fisher and Linda Agler-Evans. There\u2019s also a race for council president in Van Wert. Current Fourth Ward Councilman Andrew Davis is seeking the spot, along with Thad Eikenbary and Kirby Kelly. Current Council President Jerry Mazur opted not to seek another term. In addition, two people are running for the city\u2019s first ward council seat \u2013 incumbent Jeff Agler and challenger Kurt Schalois, while four people are running for three at-large council seats \u2013 incumbents Judy Bowers and Jeff Kallas and challengers Joe Jared and Jana L. Ringwald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are school board races in two local districts, with two seats up for grabs in each one. Incumbent Crestview board members John Auld and Andrew Perrott are seeking re-election with challenger Todd Wehner also running for a seat. Incumbents Lincolnview school board members Brad Coil and Michelle Gorman are being challenged by Ashley Breese and Scott Eddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In addition to more than a dozen local issues<\/a>, none of which are countywide, the ballot also has State Issue 1, commonly referred to as the \u201cabortion issue\u201d and State Issue 2, which concerns the legalization of recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VW independent<\/em> will publish results as they come in tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor It is Election Day in Van Wert County and throughout Ohio and a three-way race for Van Wert mayor and State Issues 1 and 2 are among the items on today\u2019s local ballot. The polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and will close at 7:30 p.m. According to Pam Henderson, Director of […]<\/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-172337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 20:22:04","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\/172337","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=172337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172397,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172337\/revisions\/172397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}