Reporter Michael Clark reports from Warren County:


Warren County Board of Election officials said this afternoon that a handful of polling places may have handed voters from the Little Miami school system incorrect ballots that had no listing of the district’s $62.5 million bond issue.

Susan Johnson, director of the Warren County Board of Elections, said her office has received reports that "two or three" of the 28 precincts in the Little Miami school system may have mistakenly passed out an unknown number of ballots to voters from that school district that were intended for residents of adjacent Kings and Clinton-Massie school systems.

Ballots for Warren County residents from Kings and Clinton-Massie school districts have no listing of the Little Miami schools tax issue.

"We have called some polling places to remind workers to hand out the correct ballots," said Johnson.

The Little Miami bond issue, which would go to building new schools and repairing aging buildings, lost by just 62 votes in November out of more than 8,000 votes cast. Today’s vote is the fourth time in less than two years the district has sought voter approval for new tax money for school buildings.

Johnson said if a Little Miami resident noticed their ballot had no Little Miami school tax issue listing, they could have simply asked polling workers for new ballots. If they did not and turned in the ballot, then the votes will be counted as cast, she said.