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    Ohio 2024 election updates in Akron: Results, voting news and more

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    Happy Election Day!

    After months of campaigning ADVERTISINGdoor knocking and fundraising, the vote is upon us.

    Beacon Journal reporters follow what’s happening at POLLSto watch parties and all the candidate wins and losses and issues in Greater Akron, the state of Ohio, and the big one: Who will be the next President of the United States — Kamala Harris or Donald J. Trump.

    Today, if you’re having trouble voting or see something we should report, email us at [email protected]. Please include “election day tip” in the subject line of your email to make sure we see it.

    Also, if you’re at the polls and facing potential voter intimidation or having trouble due to language or disability issues, you can also call the ACLU’s nonpartisan Voter Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE for help .

    When will we find out who won the election? When will the new president be announced?

    We’ll likely know late tonight or early tomorrow morning whether voters passed local school taxes, chose to keep Ohio officials like U.S. Congresswoman Emilia Sykes or Sen. Sherrod Brown, or changed the way Ohio draws its legislative maps of Congress and the state.

    But pundits across the country agree it could take days to find out whether Harris becomes the first female U.S. president or Trump returns to the White House. In 2020, Joe Biden wasn’t declared the winner until Saturday after Tuesday’s election.

    7:30 a.m. — Copley voters are in high spirits as Election Day begins

    When the polls opened at the auxiliary gym at Copley High School, a line of voters waited outside the door. People were allowed into the hall in groups as voters finished. It took about half an hour for voters to get through the line and vote. People seemed in good spirits, including the poll workers, one of whom gave a little boy a thumbs-up as his father entered the ballot into the tabulator. The boy slapped him. dad’s vote sticker on his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt.

    A poll worker warned bystanders that the ballot had two pages and that there were items on both sides of each page. The way the Summit County ballot is lined up, there’s a single judge race on the back of the front page that could be easily missed. (This is the race between Summit County Common Pleas Judge Susan Baker Ross and Attorney Susan Steinhauer.)

    Stephanie Warsmith

    7:30 am — Weather records could be broken this election day

    History could be made this election day, and it has nothing to do with anyone on the ballot.

    Weather records could be broken today as unseasonably warm temperatures are expected across northern Ohio.

    The National Weather Service says high temperatures in the upper 70s and sunny skies are forecast for Tuesday.

    A typical high for this time of year is in the 50s.

    The one thing voters should be aware of is that wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour are possible this afternoon.

    Rain showers are expected after polls close.

    Craig Webb

    Bliss Institute poll shows Trump leading Harris in Ohio; Brown, Moreno in heat

    Bliss Institute recently launched a survey which shows Trump leading Harris in Ohio by 7 percent, and Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown in a dead heat to retain his seat against Republican challenger Bernie Moreno.

    Support for Trump was above the 2.8 percent margin of error, the Bliss Institute director said J. Cherie Strachan“so that makes us relatively confident in those findings.”

    However, this does not mean that the survey is infallible.

    “There’s still a chance when you draw a random sample and use it to estimate or generalize to a larger population, there’s still a chance that the random sample is completely off. But the chances of it being wrong are pretty good. thin,” Strachan said.

    Derek Kreider

    Full story here: How did 2024 early voting in Summit County fare 4 years ago during COVID-19?

    Summit County early voting numbers

    Summit County had a big early voting turnout for the 2024 election — but for all of them long queues and waiting timesthe electoral commission said it was not a record.

    right absentee ballot report on the Summit County Board of Elections website, 113,100 people voted early between Oct. 8 and Sunday. Pete Zeigler, deputy director of the board, said operations it ran smoothly in the 26 days in which early voting was available.

    Of the early voters, 60,431 voted by mail, 48,455 voted at the Early Voting Center, 1,911 voted at the drop-board and 47 picked up their ballots to take with them – known as “hand-carry”.

    In the 2020 general election, which took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, 160,037 people voted in 26 days of early voting – mainly by post.

    Several people hoping to vote Monday morning were told they would have to wait until tuesdayhe said. A few others came in during the afternoon.

    Derek Kreider

    When are the polls open on election day?

    Polling stations for personal voting open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m

    Where do I vote?

    You can find your polling place on the Secretary of State’s website here.

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