Lorain County Board of Elections certifies results; sets recount, audit dates

SHEFFIELD TWP. — The Lorain County Board of Elections certified the results of the Nov. 3 elections Wednesday, and set the date and time to recount one race as well as audit the election results. No results changed once all ballots were counted and certified by the board. The only recount will be in a race for the 15th seat on the Lorain Charter Commission. That recount will take place at 8 a.m. Friday. Charter commission candidates Lori Olson and Mitchell Fallis are involved in the recount. Olson got 4,620 votes to sit on the 15-member commission, while Fallis got 4,559, according to complete and official voting results from the Lorain County Board of Elections. The board will meet again at 4 p.m. Nov. 24 to certify the results of the recount, Director Paul Adams said. The presidential race and one of the Ohio Supreme Court races will be audited for accuracy, state elections officials determined. Board members praised Adams, Deputy Director James Kramer and all Board of Elections employees for a smooth-running election. "All the comments I got from people about the election were about how smoothly it ran, and that's up to the staff," board member Jack Baird said. Adams and Kramer "did an extraordinary job under extremely trying circumstances," board member Anthony Giardini said. No board employees tested positive for the coronavirus during the voting process, he added. Board President Marilyn Jacobcik concurred with her fellow board members. "What a smooth operation it was to just come in and vote," she said. "I think people were pleasantly surprised." The U.S. Postal Service also "deserves some thanks," Jacobcik said. "They got a lot of bad press this election, but my understanding from the staff is that they bent over backward" to make sure all mail-in absentee ballots got to the voters and back to their ultimate destination on time to be counted. Contact Dave O'Brien at (440) 329-7129 or dobrien@chroniclet.com. Follow him @daveobrienCT on Twitter.