Early voting for the Nov. 7 general election begins Wednesday.
All Seneca County residents will vote for Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court judge for the unexpired term ending Dec. 31, 2025. Rhonda Best and James Fruth are on the ballot.
Fostoria
- Mayor
- Donald L. Mennel
- Elliot Shaffer
- Council President
- Council at-large
- Gregory Joseph Cassidy
- Braden A. Hall
- Robert L. Podach
- Fostoria City School Board
- Nichole Jones
- Thomas C. Guernsey
- Drew Shaver
Attica
- Mayor – Nathan Frisch
- Council – Nicole Lenhart
Bettsville
- Mayor – Scott Harrison
- Council
- Joyce Harrison
- Gilberto Rojas Jr
Bloomville
- Mayor – David Auble Jr
- Council – Sonya Larson
Green Springs
- Mayor – Steve Bower
- Council – Daniel Shafer
New Riegel
- Mayor – Lawrence Bouillon
- Council – Curtis Pugh
Republic
- Mayor – Donald Holmer
- Council – Tonya Hemmer
Adams Twp.
- Trustee – Gary Hoepf
- Fiscal officer – Joline Humbert
Big Spring Twp.
- Trustee – Gary Schalk
- Fiscal officer – Matthew Clouse
Bloom Twp.
- Trustee – Adam Lutz
- Fiscal officer – Susan Ziegler
Clinton Twp.
- Trustee – Randy Kuhn
- Fiscal officer – Stephen Welter
Eden Twp.
- Trustee – Vern Morter
- Fiscal officer – Julie Vogel
Hopewell Twp.
- Trustee – Troy Huth
- Fiscal officer – Laura Schreiner
Jackson Twp.
- Trustee
- Amber Ginnever
- Timothy Reinhart
- Fiscal officer – Heidi Miller
Liberty Twp.
- Trustee – Timothy Lynch
- Fiscal officer – Adam Richter
Loudon Twp.
- Trustee – Roger Holman
- Fiscal officer – Victoria Coppus
Pleasant Twp.
- Trustee – Douglas Stacy
- Fiscal officer – Jennifer Adelsperger
Reed Twp.
- Trustee – Charles Miller
- Fiscal officer – Renee Miller
Scipio Twp.
- Trustee – Rodney Miller
- Fiscal officer – Karen Aichholz
Seneca Twp.
- Trustee – Gregory Smith
- Fiscal officer – Bradley Radison
Thompson Twp.
- Trustee
- Fiscal officer – Jessica Ziegler
Venice Twp.
- Trustee – Brett Meyers
- Fiscal officer – Lisa Heisler
- Member of Governing Board of Educational Service Center NC OHIO 1ST DISTRICT
- Member of Governing Board of Educational Service Center NC OHIO 3RD DISTRICT
- Member of Board of Education BUCKEYE CENTRAL LSD
- Member of Board of Education BELLEVUE CSD
- Member of Board of Education HOPEWELL LOUDON LSD
- Adam Alt
- Kelly Cook
- Kevin Kreais
- Member of Board of Education LAKOTA LSD
- Member of Board of Education MOHAWK LSD
- Danielle Clouse
- Carl Long Jr
- Shawn Detterman
- Member of Board of Education NEW RIEGEL LSD
- Member of Board of Education NEW RIEGEL LSD *Unexpired Term*
- Member of Board of Education OLD FORT LSD
- Member of Board of Education SENECA EAST LSD
- Jeff Fullen
- Aaron Lantz
- Ashley Mackowiak
- Michala Mohr
- Marianna Snavely
- Jay Zeiter
State Issues
All Ohio residents will vote on Issue 1 and Issue 2. Voters will have the choice between yes and no for these issues. The issues and the language used on the ballot are as follows:
Issue 1 – A Self-Executing Amendment Relating to Abortion and Other Reproductive Decisions
Proposed Constitutional Amendment Proposed by Initiative Petition
To enact Section 22 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio A majority yes vote is necessary for the amendment to pass.
The proposed amendment would:
Establish in the Constitution of the State of Ohio an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion;
Create legal protections for any person or entity that assists a person with receiving reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion;
Prohibit the State from directly or indirectly burdening, penalizing, or prohibiting abortion before an unborn child is determined to be viable, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means.;
Grant a pregnant woman’s treating physician the authority to determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether an unborn child is viable;
Only allow the State to prohibit an abortion after an unborn child is determined by a pregnant woman’s treating physician to be viable and only if the physician does not consider the abortion necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health; and
Always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability if, in the treating physician’s determination, the abortion is necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health.
If passed, the amendment will become effective 30 days after the election.
Issue 2 – To Commercialize, Regulate, Legalize, and Tax the Adult Use of Cannabis Proposed
Law Proposed by Initiative Petition To enact Chapter 3780 of the Ohio Revised Code
A majority yes vote is necessary for the law to pass.
Issue 2 To Commercialize, Regulate, Legalize, and Tax the Adult Use of Cannabis Proposed Law Proposed by Initiative Petition To enact Chapter 3780 of the Ohio Revised Code A majority yes vote is necessary for the law to pass. To enact Chapter 3780 of the Ohio Revised Code, which would:
Define adult-use cannabis to mean marijuana as defined in Section 3719.01 of the Revised Code and establish the Division of Cannabis Control (the “Division”) within the Department of Commerce;
Authorize the Division to regulate, investigate, and penalize adult-use cannabis operators, adult-use testing laboratories, and individuals required to be licensed;
Legalize and regulate the cultivation, processing, sale, purchase, possession, home grow, and use of cannabis by adults at least twenty-one years of age;
Create additional protections for individuals who engage in permitted adult use cannabis conduct;
Establish the cannabis social equity and jobs program and require the Department of Development to certify program applicants based on social and economic disadvantage;
Define “social disadvantage” to include membership in a racial or ethnic minority group, disability status, gender, or long-term residence in an area of high unemployment;
Shield certain confidential information from disclosure to the public, including but not limited to any information reported to or collected by the Division that identifies or would tend to identify any adult use cannabis consumer and prohibit the Department of Development from releasing certain application information as public records;
Require the Division to provide preferential treatment to applicants who have qualified for the cannabis social equity and jobs program based on social disadvantage when issuing level III adult-use cannabis cultivator licenses and dispensary licenses;
Prohibit certain local government entities from limiting specific research, levying a tax, or charge on adult use operations, their owner, or their property not generally charged on other business, and prohibit certain local government entities from prohibiting or limiting adult-use cannabis home grow or prohibiting or restricting an activity authorized by the proposed law;
Authorize a landlord or an employer to prohibit the adult use of cannabis in certain circumstances, and prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle while using or under the influence of adult-use cannabis and from using any other combustible adult-use cannabis while a passenger in a motor vehicle;
Limit criminal liability for certain financial institutions that provide financial services to any lawful adult-use cannabis operator or testing laboratory licensed under the proposed law;
Require the Division to enter into an agreement with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to create a program for cannabis addiction services;
Provide for the creation of five funds in the state treasury: the adult use tax fund; the cannabis social equity and jobs fund; the host community cannabis fund; the substance abuse and addiction fund; and the division of cannabis control and tax commissioner fund; and
Provide for taxation of 10% on the sale of adult-use cannabis by dispensaries in addition to usual sales taxes and require that all monies collected from the 10% tax levied to be deposited into the adult-use tax fund and quarterly distributed as follows: 36% to the cannabis social equity and jobs fund; 36% to the host community cannabis facilities fund; 25% to the substance abuse and addiction fund; and 3%to the division of cannabis control and tax commission fund.
If passed, the law will become effective 30 days after the election.
