Ohio Decides 2014, Live Election Blog

Update 9:24 p.m. The Secretary of State's election returns website is down. So that will pretty much be it for me tonight. Franklin County Issues and local races are available here. This text document will continue to update throughout the night, so when you click on it, you will be getting the most up to date information. Steve Brown will be here early tomorrow morning to continue updating everything. Technical difficulties are unavoidable, I guess. But the silver lining is there were not many close races in this election. Everything seems to be going just as polls suggested they would. Stay with 89.7 NPR News on the air and online, as Marilyn Smith will continue to update you throughout the night. Update 9:14 p.m. The Gahanna-Jefferson Schools proposed Tax Levy and the Grandview Heights Schools proposed Tax Levy are both passing with absentee ballots counted and a small number of precincts reporting. The Franklin County Children Services tax levy is passing by a wide margin with about 1/10th of precincts reporting. Update 8:54 p.m. Full story on Jon Husted's victory has been added. Update 8:52 p.m. Full story on Mike DeWine's victory has been added. Update 8:44 p.m. With nearly 1,000 precincts reporting, Josh Mandel is widening his lead on Democratic opponent Connie Pillich. Mandel is holding 54 percent of the votes, while Pillich only has 45 percent. Update 8:41 p.m. With absentee ballots only, the Tax Levy for Franklin County Children Services is passing with 70.88 percent of the vote in favor of the levy. Issue 6, Issue 7 and Issue 8 are all passing by a wide margin after absentee ballots. Issue 7 seems to be the only Issue being contested. WOSU's Tom Borgerding wrote about Issue 7 earlier in the week. Update 8:37 p.m. Mike DeWine, Jon Husted and John Kasich are all expected to make their victory speeches with a couple of minutes. All those races are over. Kasich defeated Ed Fitzgerald. Husted defeated Nina Turner and DeWine defeated David Pepper. Results for Franklin County local issues are starting to roll in. Update 8:33 p.m. With 420 precincts reporting. 00000178-6a24-ddab-a97a-6a3cde030000 00000178-6a24-ddab-a97a-6a3cde040000 Update 8:30 p.m. State Supreme Court update: Incumbent Judi French leads challenger John O'Donnell 52 percent to 47 percent with 313 precincts reporting. Sharon Kennedy is dominating the other Supreme Court race with a commanding 70 percent of the votes, compared to Tom Letson's 29 percent. Update 8:25 p.m. With 224 precincts reporting, Mike Dewine is in a commanding lead over Democratic challenger, David Pepper, for the Attorney General seat. Dewine holds 59 percent of the votes, while Pepper is holding 40 percent. Update: 8:22 p.m. John Kasich was able to beat Ed Fitzgerald by about 16,000 votes in Fitzgerald's home county of Cuyahoga. Update: 8:09 p.m. Polls closed at 7:30 p.m. and immediately the Governor race in Ohio was called. John Kasich retains his Governor seat by defeating Ed Fitzgerald. Read more from the AP here. Stay with this page as we update all the races throughout the night. I'll be doing my best to keep everything up to date. As always, you can follow our coverage on twitter @wosunews.