This is just another example of problems we've had over and over. Walker wasn't in her office Wednesday and couldn't be reached at home to explain what happened. Deputy Clerk Rita Arnold said she wasn't sure where Walker was and did not expect to talk to her Wednesday. But Arnold said the delays were caused by a shortage of voting machines. We are spread too thin.
New faces are on their way to the county clerk's office.
Walker chose not to run for re-election, and Andover resident Ron Roberts defeated Democrat Tim Boughner for the position. As for the voting problems, Arnold said the clerk's office did the best job possible with the resources it had. Delays at the polls weren't limited to Butler County, where voter turnout was 65 percent. But placing only seven machines at Rose Hill Christian Church, the city's only polling site, was asking for trouble, Woydziak said. Arnold said the county gave the city seven voting machines because that's all it could spare.