Articles About elections

• Close of Voter Registration, 2024

  By YS News StaffSeptember 30, 2024

  

  Resolution 2024-61

• Election results now final

  By Audrey HackettMay 28, 2020

  

  The Greene County Board of Elections certified election results on May 19 from the extended March 17 primary election. With all valid votes now counted, the certified results are in line with the earlier uncertified results, announced April 28.

• Primary Election 2020 — Unofficial results in; jail tax fails

  By Audrey HackettApril 29, 2020

  

  Unofficial elections results are in for Ohio’s unprecedented mail-in primary.

• Delays, confusion in primary

  By Carol SimmonsApril 20, 2020

  

  As the deadline for voting in Ohio’s 2020 primary election nears, Greene County voters are reporting worrisome waits in receiving their requested absentee ballots as well as confusion around sometimes contradictory instructions.

• Greene County Commissioners— Who’s in the primary

  By Audrey HackettMarch 12, 2020

  

  Commissioners administer the county’s annual budget, which in 2020 is $55.5 million, appropriated to some 30 county offices and departments such as county and municipal courts, parks and trails and job and family services.

• Charter change narrowly fails

  By Megan BachmanNovember 14, 2019

  

  On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Yellow Springs voters narrowly rejected a measure to make several amendments to the Village Charter, according to unofficial final results from the Greene County Board of Elections.

• ‘I want to be able to vote’— YSHS teens sound off on amendment

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 7, 2019

  

  Over the last several weeks, villagers of legal voting age have taken to public forums to share their opinions on a portion of a proposed amendment to the Village charter that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote on Village issues. On Nov. 5, those same adult voters will head to the polls to decide whether or not the amendment will pass.

• Township candidates, unopposed, seek sixth full terms

  By Carol Simmons

  

  The November 2019 Miami Township election features two long-time public servants who are running unopposed for their respective offices. Margaret Silliman is seeking another four-year term as the township’s fiscal officer, and Chris Mucher is looking to return for another four-year stint as township trustee.

• Candidates Night Forum— Affordability, economy top issues

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  There was much overlap and some areas of difference among candidates for Yellow Springs Village Council at last week’s Candidates Night Forum, hosted by the James A. McKee Association in advance of the Nov. 5 election.

  Affordability, housing, economic development and village demographics headed the list of topics discussed at the forum.

• Charter change: a closer look

  By Audrey HackettOctober 17, 2019

  

  Should 16- and 17-year-olds be able to vote in Village elections? Should noncitizen residents be enfranchised for Yellow Springs offices and issues? Should the term of Yellow Springs’ mayor be lengthened from two to four years?

  Village voters will decide these issues at the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 5. All three matters are proposed as amendments to the Village of Yellow Springs Charter, and will appear as a single “yes/no” vote on the ballot.