Elections Section :: Page 17

• 11 candidates vie for offices

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 1, 2011

  Well past the filing deadline for the Nov. 8 local elections, 11 candidates are officially seeking election for offices in the village.

• Why so many voters?

  By Megan BachmanMay 19, 2011

  In last week’s special election, 1,088 local voters went to the polls out of 3,462 total registered voters in Yellow Springs, a turnout of 31 percent. But according to the 2010 Census, the village has a total adult population of only 2,799. How can the village have more registered voters than adults eligible to vote?

• Levy sails with 65% of vote

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 12, 2011

  Yellow Springs voters gave an emphatic thumbs-up to the Village five-year property tax levy renewal, with 65 percent of voters approving the levy and almost 35 percent rejecting it at the polls on Tuesday, May 3.

• Levy passes handily

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 4, 2011

  

  The Yellow Springs property tax levy renewal passed by a wide margin on Tuesday, May 3, with 65

• Village tax levy, yes or no?

  By Lauren HeatonApril 21, 2011

  About 25 villagers came out of the sun and into the Senior Center on Sunday to join a lively discussion about the Village property tax levy that will be on the ballot on May 3.

• 2010 Yellow Springs Election Results—Democrats win the village, lose Ohio

  By YS News StaffNovember 4, 2010

  While Democratic Governor Ted Strickland came out on the losing end of a tight statewide race, in Yellow Springs he was king, the choice of nine out of 10 local voters. Unfortunately for Strickland, the state did not follow the lead of the village.

• School levy passes by wide margin

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 5, 2010

  Yellow Springs voters delivered a resounding yes to village schools on Tuesday, handily passing Issue 5, the renewal levy for the Yellow Springs schools. Village-wide, about 75 percent of voters favored the levy and 25 percent voted against it. Click on the headline to read details and other election results.

• Crockett, Hollister on ballot

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 29, 2010

  

  About half of all Democrats who vote in the party primary don’t vote for the Democratic state central committeeman and committeewoman seats, which are on the ballot every four years. Probably, according to Don Hollister, people avoid that race because they don’t know the candidates nor exactly what the committee does.

• Electronic voting questioned

  By Virgil HerveyJuly 31, 2008

  In the wake of the Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing (EVEREST) study of Ohio’s electronic voting systems commissioned by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, the local group Greene County Citizens for Safe and Secure Elections…

• Levy, Neuhardt, Sutton, Obama win

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 6, 2008

  

  On Election Day Yellow Springs voters came through for local schools, local candidates and Senator Barack Obama. The renewal permanent improvement levy for the Yellow Springs school district sailed to victory, unlike school levies in most Greene County towns that went down in defeat.