ELYRIA, Ohio – Early election returns Tuesday night painted a mixed picture of Lorain County voter priorities, with support for maintaining existing school funding but resistance to new taxes across the board.

After polls closed at 7:30 p.m., early and absentee ballot tallies showed voters appeared willing to renew existing levies for Lorain City Schools but were rejecting new school taxes in Amherst and Vermilion.

Meanwhile, a proposed countywide sales and use tax to fund the Sheriff’s Office and a bid to raise North Ridgeville’s income tax were facing defeat.

Millions of dollars in school funding and government operations hang in the balance across seven key ballot measures. But initial tallies provide a first look at voter priorities and how issues are shaping up.

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