68% turn out to vote in county
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best, was the county election bureau’s motto on Election Day.
Bureau staff was prepared to respond to issues that might arise at voting precincts, and they handled the few problems that did occur as voters turned out in large numbers to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s midterm election.
“Nothing we hadn’t anticipated or were not prepared for,” is how county solicitor Wil White summed up the issues.
What was perhaps the biggest problem occurred at the Butler Township 1-1 precinct polling place at Butler County Community College, where one of the two vote scanning machines malfunctioned when it was plugged in as the site opened, he said.
The single working machine was used until a replacement for the second machine was delivered by one of the bureau rovers, who have supplies such as spare parts and other materials with them, White said. Rovers were assigned to different areas of the county to address those types of issues, he added.
“It went quite smoothly. There were some minor problems,” White said.
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