Woman goes into labor at Sylvania poll site

11/6/2007
BLADE STAFF

The night's winners and losers are not what Lucas County Board of Elections Director Jill Kelly will remember most about the 2007 election.

Rather, what will first come to her mind is the phone call telling her one of her female poll worker's water broke on site, thus sending her into labor.

"Oh my God," Ms. Kelly said when asked of her reaction. "I wonder if she'll name [her child] after me."

Ms. Kelly didn't know the woman's name or what hospital she was taken to, only that it happened at the Sylvania 21 precinct.

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