8:24 p.m. The polls have been closed for nearly an hour and neither Summit nor Stark County's Boards of Elections have any results posted on-line yet. Not even absentees. I wonder how the bad weather affected today's' turnout. Probably fewer folks made the trip to the polls. We've sent our one photographer, Mark, to Mayor Janet Weir Creighton's camp. If she wins, it'll be her speech that we need for the news. If she loses, we'll need her concession speech and the winning speech from challenger William Healy. With only one photographer on the clock, this is the safest strategy.
8:31 p.m. Well, it's not a total loss. Time Warner at least has some results on Channel 23. WKYC.com is also locked in on partial results. I see Bob Keith and Randy Cole are very close in the race for Ward 8 on Akron City Council. Dick Norton is up 2-1 against Andy Padrutt for Green Mayor .. but there's only a few hundred ballots counted so far. Issue 21 (CSB) and ADM Board (Issue 20) are both winning with absentee votes. I have a feeling that we'll have an avalanche of results in the next 20 minutes. Mark just called from Mayor Creighton's camp. She already did an interview with an intern we sent with Mark about the future of Canton. It's an interview that won't mean much if the vote doesn't go her way .. so we still have some waiting to do. Still showing zero-zero in the results of that race ... and the same goose eggs in the Carano-Widowfield contest for Cuyahoga Fall Municipal Clerk of Courts.
8:58 p.m. AkronNewsNow.com showing 18 percent in for Issues 20 and 21. Partials for everything else. Summit BOE's own website still showing zeroes. Doesn't make sense. Approaching the 9 p.m. hour ... 60 minutes til we hit air! Let the fun begin!
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