Voting Process

Voting Districts are divided by the number of people living in each precinct. Each precinct has its own polling location for elections.

Recently, the state legislature changed the districts so that each district holds the maximum amount of people allowed in it. The Wood County Board of Elections then decreased the number of precincts in order for the tax payers to save money.

Each polling location has electronic polling stations where residents can cast their vote into a machine and not on a paper ballot. After the election is over and polling stations close, BOE members go to their assigned polling location to pick up the memory cards that holds all the votes.

The cards are then taken to the BOE office and are counted. Results of the election vary every year, depending on when BOE members get to the polling station and drive to the BOE office. BOE members are selected and appointed by their respective parties.

(Debbie Hazard, director of Wood County Board of Elections)

Poll Locations

Wood County has 97 precincts, 19 of which are in Bowling Green. Precincts are divided by the State Legislature according to the number of people living in a specific area. The list below is of the polling locations for the precincts in Bowling Green:

1A, 1B: Ridge Street School

1C, 3C: BGSU Union, Smith Multicultural Lounge

2A, 2D: VFW Post #1148

2B, 2F, 3B: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church

2C: Crim Street School

3D: Wood County Library

3E: Peace Lutheran Church

3G: Kenwood School

4A, 4H, 4J: BG Church of the Nazarene

4B: BG City Park-Girl Scout Building

4D, 4E: BG Senior High School

For more information on your voter precinct and your assigned voting station, go to the Wood County Board of Elections website at http://www.co.wood.oh.us/BOE/Voter_search.html.