A Marion County “Get Out the Vote Rally” is set for Saturday, October 25, 2014 at Tri-Rivers Career Center, 2222 Marion-Mount Gilead Road. Governor John Kasich and Lt. Governor Mary Taylor will be speaking to the assembled group beginning at 3:30 p.m. Other state elected officials are expected to attend also. Doors will open at […]
Candidates Night Debate Set for Tuesday at New Location
October 20, 2014 by
League of Women Voters (LWV) of Marion will hold a Candidates’ Night (CN) Debate Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. at the WWGH (Warren G. Harding) 107.1 FM radio station, 1421 Marion Waldo Road (inside Marion Centre). This year’s participants are the contested local candidates running for office. Contested candidates for Marion County Commissioners are: Ken […]
Board of Elections: Many Taking Advantage of Early Voting Opportunities
October 16, 2014 by
Early voting for the 2014 General Election began October 7 and will continue through November 3 for all registered voters in Ohio. According to Dave Little, Director of the Marion County Board of Election, the number of voters taking advantage of the opportunity to voter early has increased significantly in this election period over the […]
Survey Finds Ohioans Lack Knowledge of How Elections Work
October 15, 2014 by
Voting is underway for Ohio’s next top election official, but a new poll shows the vast majority of Ohioans don’t know who is in charge of running elections statewide. Only 8 percent of registered Ohio voters correctly identified the secretary of state as the chief elections official in Ohio in a survey conducted earlier this […]
Republican Women’s Club to Hear from Two Supreme Court Candidates
October 9, 2014 by
Two incumbent Ohio Supreme Court Justice candidates will be speaking to the Marion County Republican Women’s Club members on Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Justice Judi French, seeking a term beginning Jan.2, 2015, and Justice Sharon Kennedy, seeking an additional term beginning Jan. 1, 2015, will speak at the 11:45 a.m. luncheon held at the Harding […]
Voter Registration Deadline Nears for November Election
October 2, 2014 by
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has reminded Ohioans that they have until Monday, October 6th, to get registered to vote or update their voting information, and that absentee voting begins the following day on Tuesday, October 7th, for the 2014 General Election. Secretary Husted also noted that 582,971 Ohio voters have already requested an […]
Poll: Kasich Widens Lead for Re-Election
October 1, 2014 by
Ohio Gov. John Kasich leads Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald 57 – 35 percent among likely voters, as the challenger still is largely unknown among voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. The Republican governor even gets 25 percent of Democratic voters, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. This survey of likely […]
Court Issues Stay in Ohio Early Voting Ruling, Voting Now Set to Start Next Week
September 30, 2014 by
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said he will revert back to the early, in-person voting hours he set in June after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a last-minute stay of a lower court’s order to expand early voting hours. In a statement released Monday afternoon, Husted said the hours were approved by […]
Marion Republicans Open Headquarters for Election Season
September 29, 2014 by
Marion County Republican headquarters are now open until the November 4, 2014 mid-term elections. The hours at the 114 South Main Street location are Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and again from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. During these hours, volunteers will be available to answer questions, offer printed information, distribute yard […]
Governor’s Race to Have No Debates, First Time Since 1978
September 17, 2014 by
For the first time in nearly three decades, Ohioans likely will not see a debate between gubernatorial candidates. The campaign for Gov. John Kasich announced Tuesday that it walked away from negotiations to schedule a public debate between Kasich and Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald. The announcement came after FitzGerald’s campaign accused Kasich of refusing to […]
