Results:
Mayor: David Weiss*
City Council: Sean Malone*, Carmella Williams*, Kim Bixenstine and Nancy Moore*
Board of Education: Doug Wang and Pam Scott
Municipal Court: Anne Walton Keller*
Issue 1: Passed
Issue 2: Passed
Issue 5: Passed
Issue 13: Passed
* indicates incumbent
Live Updates:
8:30 a.m.
Overnight, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections finished counting Election Day votes.
Incumbent Mayor David Weiss received 78 percent of the vote, defeating Scott Shelfer 9,381-2,608. Sean Malone, Carmella Williams, Kim Bixenstine and Nancy Moore were elected to City Council. Malone received 22 percent of votes cast and Williams received 21 percent. Both Bixenstine and Moore received 19 percent of the vote. Read more…
Doug Wang and Pam Scott were elected to two open seats on the Board of Education, receiving 8,052 and 5,945 votes respectively. The other two candidates, Andrea Boyd and Laura Whay Klein, received 6257 votes (32 percent) combined. Read more…
Voters approved Issue 13, with 59 percent of votes cast in favor of the measure. The issue comprises funding for renovating elementary and middle schools, a permanent improvement levy for building maintenance, and funding for an expanded pre-K program. Read more…
Issue 5, a tax levy for Cuyahoga Community College, also passed with 62 percent of the vote.
Shaker Heights Municipal Court Judge Anne Walton Keller, who ran unopposed, won re-election with 100 percent of the 17,255 votes cast. The seat is also elected by voters in Beachwood, Hunting Valley, Pepper Pike and University Heights.
Josh Levin
9:40 p.m.
With 2.2 million votes cast, Ohio voters have approved Issue 2. The measure, which legalizes recreational use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21, received 1.2 million votes, or 55 percent of votes cast.
Josh Levin
9:15 p.m.
Ohio voters have approved Issue 1, The Associated Press reports. 1.9 million votes have been counted statewide, with 56 percent in favor of the amendment. Read more…
Josh Levin
8:55 p.m.
Statewide, more than 1.2 million Issue 1 votes have been counted. So far, 59 percent of votes counted are in favor of the amendment, which would establish the constitutional right to abortion in Ohio.
Will Stewart
8:24 p.m.
With early in-person votes fully counted, incumbent Mayor David Weiss has 83 percent of the vote, leading Scott Shelfer 3,145-636. Voter turnout in Shaker Heights is 54 percent, according to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Josh Levin
7:30 p.m.
Polls have closed but those who are already in line to vote will be permitted to do so. Turnout remains at 53 percent in Shaker and 43 percent county-wide.
Josh Levin
7:29 p.m.
Seniors Adam Holbrook, Jack Lamb and Andrzej Love voted at Woodbury Elementary School. They said that it was not very busy, but there was a steady stream of people. Senior Lauren Hilbert, who voted at Fernway Elementary School, said that it was busy, but there was not a big line to vote. All four seniors said that voting was easy. “It was so easy, I’m surprised people don’t do it when they can. It took 20 minutes from leaving my house to get back home,” Love said in a text message.
Ruben Rippner
7:00 p.m.
With 30 minutes until polls close, voter turnout for Shaker Heights has reached 53 percent, compared to 43 percent for Cuyahoga County.
Eliot Call
6:45 p.m.
Senior Lilith Schmidt worked at Canterbury Elementary School, a polling station in Cleveland Heights, to fulfill her government class requirement of eight service learning hours. She said that it was “decently busy” during her 6:15-10:15 a.m. shift. She said the experience was positive because she “got to talk to some older people who were really interested in promoting voting and civic responsibility.”
Olivia Cavallo
6:20 p.m.
Four candidates competing for two Board of Education seats has been rare in Shaker Heights. A review of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections archive shows that since 1983, there have been no such occurrences; for most elections, the number of candidates equaled the number of seats.
Daniel Carroll
6:00 p.m.
With 90 minutes until polls close, voter turnout for Shaker Heights has reached 51 percent, compared to 41 percent for Cuyahoga County.
Vaughn Ullom
5:35 p.m.
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Josh Levin and Vaughn Ullom
5:25 p.m.
Around 8 a.m. at Woodbury Elementary School, a steady stream of voters arrived to cast their ballots. Petitioners approached voters, seeking support for ballot measures intended for the 2024 November election, including one that would establish the minimum wage at $15. At around 4 p.m. at Shaker Heights Middle School, the polls were calm, with not many voters present. From start to finish, casting a ballot took about five to seven minutes.
Alyson Garfield
5:17 p.m.
Results for Issue 1, which would establish the constitutional right to abortion in Ohio, are pending. Ohio voters defeated a related measure, also called Issue 1, in a special election held Aug. 8. If approved, that measure would have required that any proposed amendment to the state constitution receive the approval of at least 60 percent of voters, rather than the existing +51 percent.
The August issue, widely considered to be a Republican effort to prevent passage of Issue 1 today, was defeated, 77 to 23 percent. Shaker Heights voters rejected it more soundly; 7 percent (827 voters) approved the amendment, while 93 percent (11,336 voters) rejected it.
Vaughn Ullom
5:00 p.m.
With 2 hours and 30 minutes until polls close, 47 percent of Shaker’s 22,678 registered voters have voted, including 3,708 absentee and 6,992 Election Day votes.
Josh Levin
3:57 p.m.
Today’s ballot includes contested races for mayor, four city council seats and two seats on the Board of Education. It also includes the reelection of Municipal Court Judge Anne Walton Keller, who is running unopposed.
In Shaker, Issue 13, a 9.95-mill tax increase, is on the ballot as well. The issue comprises funding for renovating elementary and middle schools, a permanent improvement levy for building maintenance, and funding for an expanded pre-K program. Voters throughout the county will also decide on Issue 5, a tax levy for Cuyahoga Community College.
Two statewide measures, Issue 1 and Issue 2, are also on the ballot. According to Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Issue 1 would amend the state constitution to establish “an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion.” Issue 2 would amend Ohio law to legalize recreational use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21.
Josh Levin
3:55 p.m.
Polls opened at 6:30 a.m. today for the November General Election. Early voting began Oct. 11.
Beginning this year, voters must present a valid state or federal photo ID, such as an Ohio driver’s license, Ohio ID card, U.S. passport or military ID, according to the Ohio secretary of state’s office. Any voter who does not have a valid form of ID may cast a provisional ballot, which will only be counted if they present an acceptable ID to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections within four days.
Polls will close at 7:30 p.m.. Any voter who is in line at that time will be permitted to vote. Find your polling location on the Board of Elections’ website.
Josh Levin
Bruce Jennings | Nov 7, 2023 at 10:06 pm
Very proud of The Shakerite! Looking forward to more to come.