The Wood County Board of Elections certified results this morning of the Aug. 8 special election. The final count confirms that most of the small villages joined the cities in Wood County in rejecting state Issue 1.
Statewide, voters turned down Issue 1 by 57%. Wood County citizens voted the issue down by 56.5%.
August elections in Ohio typically have very low voter turnouts – dipping as low as 7% in Wood County. However, Issue 1 brought out 40.2% of registered voters in the county (36,772 of 91,553 voters).
In several Bowling Green and Perrysburg precincts, the turnout was over 50% and even 60%.
Every precinct in Bowling Green rejected Issue 1, as did those in Northwood and Rossford. All but 1 precinct in Perrysburg turned down the ballot issue.
Other villages in Wood County also voted against the statewide issue. Those towns included Pemberville, Grand Rapids, North Baltimore, Millbury, Walbridge, Haskins, Portage, Tontogany and Weston.
Some pockets of township voters also rejected Issue 1, including precincts in Lake Township, Middleton Township, Montgomery Township and much of Perrysburg Township.
If passed, Issue 1 would have required 60% of voters to pass any future citizen-initiated constitutional amendments in Ohio. It would also have required petition signatures from all 88 counties rather than the 44 required now.
