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The election of his opponent was rough for Tom Ballaban, Democratic candidate for Hamilton County sheriff. At 10:45 p.m. Election night he said ‘‘The early returns are still in. I'm hop ing things start to turn around for me here, but I'm still very op timistic.”’ He maintained that his optimism as late as 1 a.m. but the votes just kept coming in for incumbent Lin coln Stokes. There was a lot of kissing by family members and backers of the former high school football coach. His family was with him throughout the night and one young daughter was seen crying as the late returns showed his loss. ELVERA RADFORD, director of the election board, said the county turnout was 74.19 percent of the registered voters. She had predicted 80 to 84 percent turnout earlier. The Ohio Secretary of State had predicted 77 percent statewide but Radford said Hamilton County has been historically higher. The vote was the lowest for a Presidential election in the county in the past 20 years. No one seemed to know why the turnout was lighter than expected. The vote count was delayed because there were lines of voters waiting to register their vote at the 7:30 p.m. closing of the polls. The voting was said to be very heavy at various spots around Anderson Township. For instance, 10 to 12 people were standing in line to vote when two precincts opened at Sherwood School at 6:30 a.m., officials told the Journal. Voter number 74 registered at 7:50 a.m. at Anderson V precinct and there were four persons voting and three standing in line at the time. see THE ANDERSON Park levy passed but it didn’t look like it would until the very last precinct was reported. With that final precinct, the levy went over the top by 15 votes. JOHN O'BRIEN continued his tradition of piling up votes. This time the votes were garnered in a much larger area than Anderson Township. Kevin Veeneman, his opponent, said near the end of the evening, that his aides had thought he might carry Clermont County but this was not the case. The Anderson fire levy and the zoning referendum issues were not close. William Fellerhoff, a Mt. Washington resident, held his lead all night over Ronald A. Panioto, to become the new Domestic Rela tions Court judge. The term begins Jan. §, 1981. The size did vary but the winning margin of 51.72 percent to 48.27 percent had to be pleasing to be judged. HELEN FIX, 26th district state representative, was pleased that the Republicans did so well. ‘‘Peo ple just got tired of big government and over-regulation,”’ she said. Republicans targeted about a dozen house districts around the state for special attention and the GOP was doing well in them, she pointed out. The GOP picked up ‘six seats in the House after all the smoke cleared around the state. Bob Taft II, outgoing 65th district state representative, was surprised with the size of the land slide and how strong Reagan was in Ohio. He was pleased that come January the GOP will control both the governor's office and the state senate, winning enough senate seats to take over the majority. Taft predicted that Cooper Snyder, who won his own term as sixth district state senator, will have more clout when he is in the majority come January. Ditto for Dick Finan, seventh district state senator. Add Earl Barnes, state GOP chairman, to those who were happy to see the state legislature turn more to his party’s favor es AT ABOUT 9:45 p.m. Barnes was pleased that Carter had just ap peared on TV to concede. He said he and Gov. James A. Rhodes had predicted the concession would be at 9:30 p.m.,15 minutes earlier. Later, it was revealed that Reagan had received a telegram from Carter at about 8:50 p.m. When a Journal reporter told Barnes of this timing, he smiled and kidded: ‘‘Call the governor and give him hell. In races for Court of Common Pleas benches, incumbent Republicans William S. Mathews, William R. Matthews, Gilbert Bett man and Thomas H. Crush were reelected. Judge David Grossmann was reelected to the juvenile court bench and Norbert Nadel won a domestic relations judiciary seat. Grossmann and Nadel are also Republicans. Two Cincinnati issues were also on the ballot, each meeting a dif ferent fate. Charter Amendment Four, adopted by a vote of 57 per cent to 43 percent, will repeal city requirements for pay parity bet ween firefighters and policemen. Charter Amendment Five, which was defeated, would have provided for final offer binding arbitration between firefighters and the city.
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Forest Hills Journal
Newtown, California, US
Fri, Nov 07, 1980
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