If an elected official resigns or dies in office, how that person replaced between general elections?  The procedures can be complicated and are explained by the Ohio Secretary of State in this website: https://www.ohiosos.gov/globalassets/elections/eoresources/general/fillingvacancies.pdf.  

There are hundreds of thousands of US. citizens who work for the government at all levels. Most are hired, a small group hold their jobs because we elect them. For instance, school teachers and administrators are public servants, but are hired. However, the school board is elected. Why? We expect the school board to hire those people that match our society standards. I mentioned in the educational chapter that I was hired by a school district because I matched the majority religion of the school district. Society standards are a mixture of racial, ethnic, economic, political, religious and moral standards. These standards affect every one of us and how we vote. 

As a historian, society standards and my own personal views and my morality affect how I interpret history. Are there history books that are totally unbiased. No! Is this history website unbiased? I try to make it so, but no historian has ever written or can write a totally unbiased view of history. How does society does affect us historically?

I was raised in central Ohio. My community in Union County was very biased. The community, our parents and our companions affected how we personally acted. As a teenager, our humor was insulting toward ethnic, racial and religious denominations. We thought this was normal. It reflected our community standards. I look back at these years with a sense of shame, but I realize that not only are the product of our culture, but we are also victims of biased and wrong value systems. While in high school, I enlisted in the U.S. Marines. The norms of my community were quickly revealed to be wrong as I intermingled with people of all races and ethnic backgrounds. As we mature, our biases are revealed and hopefully we change. It can be difficult, especially when our changed values conflict with current cultural values.

Ohio is divided into districts which affect the names on the ballots. Ohio has 15 U.S. congressional districts based on population which allows us 15 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and each state has 2 senators. 

At the state level, we have 10 districts for the State Board of Education, 33 districts for the Ohio Senate, and 95 districts for the Ohio House of Representatives.

Elections for Boards of Education members are on the ballots of the precincts located within the school district. Tolles Career and Technical Center has a Board of Education made up of representatives from the seven participating school districts. These are appointed, not elected,  from each participating school district.

The following table identifies those elected offices that are typical.  Based on your voting precinct, not all those identified will pertain to you. You will only see those that govern your precinct.