Voter registration for primary ends today
A number of contested races, as well as tax issues, will be on March 17 ballots across the Miami Valley.
Voters who want a say in the March 17 primary election need to be registered by today at their local board of elections or online.
Voters who want to vote in the March 17 primary election need to have registered by today at their local board of elections or online.
Depending on where voters live, ballots will begin with races for national office, including the Democratic presidential primary, and include state and countywide races, as well as a range of school levies, other tax and liquor-option issues and charter amendments.
Democratic ballots will begin with the presidential primary to include former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; former Vice President Joe Biden; former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; senators Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren; U.S. Rep Tulsi Gabbard; and former businessman Tom Steyer.
The race for the 6th District Ohio Senate seat being vacated by Peggy Lehner because of term limits is contested in the primary on both the Republican and Democratic sides.
State Rep. Niraj Antani, R-Miamisburg, is in a race with Gregory Robinson of Dayton and Rachel Shelby of Centerville for the GOP nod. Mark Fogel of Centerville, is running for the Democratic nomination against Albert Griggs Jr. of Huber Heights.
In Congressional District 10, U.S. Rep. Mike Turner’s re-election is being challenged in the Republican primary by John Anderson of Enon and Kathi Flanders of Centervile. On the Democratic side, Eric Moyer and Desiree Tims are seeking their party’s nomination.
In the GOP primary for the Ohio Senate District 4 seat being vacated by Republican Bill Coley, state Rep. Candice Keller is facing off against fellow state Rep. George Lang and West Chester Twp. Trustee Lee Wong. In the Democratic primary, Kathy Wyenandt is running
unopposed.
Four Republicans — Mary Lynne Birck, Matthew Byrne, Bill Coley and Noah Powers II — are racing to replace Judge Robert Ringland on the 12th District Court of Appeals.
And there are contested primary races for county commission seats in Montgomery, Greene and Miami counties.
Voters in Oakwood will find a 1.5-mill levy for operations of the Wright Memorial Public Library.
Tax increases are sought by the Bellbrook, Mason, Troy and Valley View school districts and for public safety agencies in Fairborn, West Carrollton, Jackson Twp. and Newton/Pleasant Hill.
Greene County voters will cast ballots on a proposed 12-year, 0.25% sales tax increase to fund construction of a $70 million jail.
In Washington Twp. in Montgomery County, voters in the unincorporated part of the township, will see a five-year, 2.3-mill replacement levy for police services.
Voters in Harveysburg in Warren County will consider a five-year, 2.5-mill additional levy to pay for street repairs.
Voters in the Beavercreek, Cedar Cliff and Little Miami school districts will vote on substitute levies, which keep existing homeowners’ tax rates the same but allow for revenue growth when new construction occurs.
Renewal levies, extending existing tax rates into future years, will be on ballots in the Vandalia-Butler and Lebanon school districts, village of Jamestown, Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Park District and in Harrison and Miami townships.
The Kings school district in Warren County is seeking an $89,975,000 bond issue averaging 4.7 mills for 37 years.
Early voting begins Wednesday and continues until Election Day.