Ohio Election Update – 2:30 p.m. – Election Day

2:30 p.m.

So Far So Good, Except in Montgomery County (Dayton)

• Ringing off the hook – Columbus Dispatch
• Long lines but few problems mark day so far – Toledo Blade
• Fairfield County paper ballots being handled as provisional
  – Columbus Dispatch
• Elections chief reports no major problems in morning voting
  – The Plain Dealer
• Reports from NE Ohio bloggers – The Plain Dealer
• Things good so far with double bubble caveat – Blogger Interrupted
• Will Montgomery County (Dayton) take until tomorrow to report? – Buckeye State Blog
• Paper ballots could delay results until Wednesday – Dayton Daily News
• Miami County GOP files complaint
  – Dayton Daily News
• Some malfunctioning voter machines reported
  – Dayton Daily News
• Average voter waits less than one hour statewide
  – Cincinnati Enquirer
• Election Day a test for Ohio’s Secy of State – Associated Press
• Area Polls bustling from outset – Akron Beacon Journal
• Toledo police set with riot gear in case of election problems – Toledo Blade

Ohio’s Morning Papers – Election Day

Columbus Dispatch

• Editorial: Energized
  
• Palin, Biden wind up in Ohio
  
• Are Polls reliable or hiding the truth?
  
• Campaigners make final appeals
  
• Congressional races to watch tonight
  
• Paper ballots put on standby
  
• Will ’04 debacle haunt ’08?
  
• Whole world is watching Chillicothe cast its ballots
  
• Electricity, education bring cash to races
  

Cleveland Plain Dealer

• About 25% of NE Ohio voters have already cast ballots
  
• Ohio voting machines to be tested today
  
• Voters glad to see end of record run of TV ads
  
• Palin, Biden stump NE Ohio on last day
  

Dayton Daily News

• Palin, Biden roll through
  
• Brunner: Have confidence in voting
  
• Ohio congressman asked to leave polling place
  
• Editorial: Ohio election not likely to be stolen in 2008 either
  
• Rod Parsley speaks out
  

Toledo Blade

• Day of decision arrives
  
• Biden, Palin make last appeal to Ohio
  
• Rx sought for election anxiety
  

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Record turnout likely
  
• ‘Blood money’ cited in campaign

Campaign stays hot in Ohio: 2008 Elections Coverage by Ohio’s Major Dailies

Columbus Dispatch

• McCain camp sees gap tightening in battleground states
  
• Clinton talks up Obama in Youngstown
  
• In So. Ohio Hillary says Nation needs Obama
  
• Obama army blankets Ohio
  
• Editorial: Sex, Lies and Gifts
  
• The Arnold heading to Columbus
  
• GOP says sorry to House Democrat
  
• Obama likes Clinton vet to serve as CoS
  

Cleveland Plain Dealer

• Clinton, Strickland stump for Obama
  
• McCain ends bus trip with muscle
  
• Springsteen campaigns for Obama this weekend in Cleveland
  
• McCain’s third stop leaves open field
  
• McCain gives shout out to ‘Joe the Plumber’ relatives
  

Dayton Daily News

• Election Board to probe Husted’s Residency
  
• Boehner calls Obama barnyard name
  
• Biden calls McCain Bush’s Sidekick in Kettering
  
• McCain, ‘Joe the Plumber’ draw crowds across Ohio
  
• Judge throws out suit to take Obama off Ohio ballots