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News Review: Monday, May 10
The week that was started out with a typical, although crowded, Primary Election. But like most ballot days in Butler County, May 4 was no ordinary day.
Things were going as planned, at least logistically, when the polls closed at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday … That was until absentee results were posted on the Butler County Board of Elections website.
Then something went wrong, as server after server after server crashed, leaving thousands of county voters in the dark as to election results. Initially, Elections Director Betty McGary and county IT director Greg Sullivan assumed the worst, saying they believed they were under “attack” by an outside source.
Things calmed down a bit as the night went on, and Sullivan and others were able to block the IP address that they thought was causing all the problems.
On Thursday, McGary and Sullivan announced they were pulling in the Butler County Sheriff’s Office to launch an investigation, which could take one to three months.
Late week, I did a story about City Council starting to examine whether to lift a pay freeze implemented in 2007. The response to City Manager Mark Brandenburger’s declaration that he had lost three key department heads to the private sector was to study the situation first. Council may pick a company to study the issue within the next month.
I was the Sunday reporter yesterday, May 9, and had an opportunity to spend part of Mother’s Day with a local mother with a great story to tell.
Christina Powell, mother of three, lost her husband in August 2009 to a heart-related illness. Already struggling financially, the prospect of fixing up her dilapidated 100-year-old home wasn’t good. All told, more than 100 volunteers did an estimated $70,000 worth of work.
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