Issue 1 voter? 29,000 in SW Ohio will have new polling places

Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer
Updated ·3 min read
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Early voters at the Board of Elections in Norwood vote yes or no on Issue 1, the only thing on the ballot for the special election which will be Aug. 8
Early voters at the Board of Elections in Norwood vote yes or no on Issue 1, the only thing on the ballot for the special election which will be Aug. 8

A small portion of voters will need to go to a different polling location to cast their ballots in the Aug. 8 election.

Voters will decide on Issue 1, which would raise the threshold for amending the Ohio Constitution from 50% of the vote to 60%.

Renovations at some locations and scheduling conflicts with the summer election meant the county boards of elections had to move a handful of precincts in the Cincinnati region.

You can find your polling location on the Ohio Secretary of State's website.

On the whole, it impacts 29,000 people at 15 polling locations in Hamilton, Warren and Clermont counties. Butler County has no changes. That's 2.5% of the total number of registered voters in those four counties.

Warren County had the most, with six of its 55 polling locations moved due to a variety of issues, affecting 7% of its voters.

"This happens from time to time and is nothing out of the ordinary," Warren County Board of Elections Director Brian Sleeth wrote in an email to The Enquirer.

The reasons for the six locations varied. The Deerfield Baptist Church in Maineville sold the church forcing that precinct to move to the YMCA in Landen, according to the Warren County Board of Elections list of changes. Another church had asked the county to move the polling location.

The Towne Mall in Franklin is no longer a polling location because it "was no longer comfortable for voters and workers," the board's site stated. Those voters will now go to Towne Church a few blocks away.

Clermont County had the next highest number of changes with five polling locations moving affecting 10,000 people, also about 7% of the voters in that county.

Renovations at some locations and summer school in an Indian Hill school required Hamilton County to move four polling locations, impacting 6,500 of the 593,000 registered voters in the county. All the Hamilton County polling changes are temporary.

Here's a complete list of polling changes in the Cincinnati region.

Hamilton County

  • Cincinnati 8C at Playhouse in the Park has moved to the Cincinnati Park Board, 950 Eden Park Drive

  • Cincinnati 12E at the Corryville Library has moved to the Corryville Recreation Center, 2823 Eden Avenue

  • Springfield Township G and Z have moved from the Springfield Township Arts Connect Center to the Northminster Presbyterian Church, 703 Compton Road

  • Indian Hill A and B have moved from the Indian Hill Church to the Madeira-Indian Hill Fire Department, 6475 Drake Road

Clermont County

  • Miami N, R, and C1C at Seipelt Elementary School have moved to the Milford Board of Education Office, 1099 Ohio Route 131

  • Miami F1F, G1G, H1H, and P1P at Boyd E. Smith Elementary have moved to the Miami Township Civic, 6101 Meijer Dr, in Milford.

  • Wayne Township B and C at Wayne Township Administration Building have moved to the Wayne Township Firehouse, 6306 Ohio Route 133, in Goshen.

  • New Richmond A and New Richmond B have moved from Market Street to the New Richmond branch of the Clermont County Public Library, 103 River Valley Boulevard.

  • Ohio Township B has moved from Market Street in New Richmond to the Ohio Township Hall, 2877 Mount Pisgah Road.

Warren County

  • Hamilton Township T has moved from Pure Ministries in Landen to Fellowship Baptist Church in Maineville

  • Deerfield Township R has moved from Pure Ministries in Landen to the YMCA in Landen, 2894 U.S. 22

  • Maineville Village precinct has moved from the Maineville United Methodist Church to the Little Miami Primary School, 7247 Zoar Road, in Maineville

  • Deerfield Township Y and Z will move from Deerfield Methodist Church to the YMCA in Landen, 2894 U.S. 22

  • Hamilton Township M will move from the Little Miami Primary School to the Maineville Hopkins Commons Apartments, 7856 Ohio Route 48 in Maineville

  • Franklin Township D and H and Turtlecreek Township A will move from Towne Mall to Towne Church, 3722 Towne Boulevard, Franklin

  • Mason City F, P and Z and Deerfield Township E will move from the Golf Center at Kings Island to Sinclair Community College Building B, 5386 Courseview Drive in Mason

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Issue 1: Where have polling locations changed in Greater Cincinnati?