Ohio was the center of Super Tuesday II drama, with weather, ballot shortages and questionable ballot transfers raising concerns about Election Day outcomes.

Though Hillary Clinton pulled out a wide-margin victory, local officials wondered aloud what necessitated the decision to grant a request by Barack Obama campaign's to extend polling hours in some locations.

Polls in Sandusky County were ordered by a judge to stay open until 9 p.m. ET because the northwest Ohio county apparently ran out of paper ballots, forcing election workers to turn away 300 to 400 people.But in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, 14 precincts were also permitted to remain open until 9 p.m. ET. Jeff Hastings, the Republican chairman of the county Board of Elections, said he knew of no evidence presented for extending the polling place hours.

Hastings said while higher-than-expected turnout and ballot shortages had been reported in more than one county in Ohio, his county never ran out of ballots.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern also questioned the decision by Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr, a 1994 Bill Clinton appointee to the bench. Redfern contends that after reviewing the paperwork on the judge's order, he could find no evidence, no sworn statements or anything else to justify the 90-minute extension of voting in Cuyahoga.

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner also said she knew of no shortage of ballots, excessive waits or seriously inclement weather that could have prompted the extension. Brunner was ready to appeal the judge's order, but was only able to mount her argument minutes before voting was to end, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer, which quoted her saying that the Obama campaign had been "cherry-picking" which precincts to remain open.

The Clinton campaign had no official  comment on this suggestion, but when asked, noted these polling places were in largely African-American neighborhoods. However, because of the rift that developed between blacks and the Clinton campaign over statements made throughout the campaign by former President Bill Clinton, campaign officials indicated they felt powerless to complain out of fear of further alienating African Americans.

Long lines and foul weather were given as the reasons the extension was granted in Cuyahoga. Obama's campaign had also requested permission to keep Franklin County polling places open later. The Franklin County request was denied.

Meanwhile, another election official at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections told reporters she was looking into charges that the team escorting ballots earlier Tuesday from key local polling places to the central counting location was composed only of Democrats, which would have violated a mandate that the teams bringing votes across the county would be comprised of both Democrats and Republicans.

Jane Platten, director of the county election board, said she "is trying to find out what the political balance was," but told reporters she was confident that the so-called "retrieval team" that picked up the votes from the polling stations was made up of one Democrat, and one Republican, while it was still unclear whether the "special operations team" accompanied by law enforcement was all Democrats.

"It's questionable enough that ballots are being put in boxes and placed in cars to drive around the county, but to remove bipartisan oversight of the ballots while being collected and in transport threatens the integrity of the system," said Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine.

The midday pick-up was part of a state-sanctioned effort to carry out the huge volume of vote-counting in the county, which has 578 polling locations and 1 million registered voters. Midday pick-ups were scheduled at 62 locations and the votes were supposed to be processed at the county headquarters, but not counted until after the polls closed.

Elsewhere, voting was halted at one polling place for about 90 minutes in Madison, Ohio, because of a bomb threat at a middle school. Officials say voters were cleared out of Madison Middle School and the school placed on lockdown until the building was declared safe.

Mother Nature is blamed for lower than expected turnout, particularly in the rural southeastern part of the state, a stronghold of Clinton-supporter Gov. Ted Strickland. The area had been hit by flooding and causing road closures. Several polling places were shuttered and moved elsewhere.

Brunner sought court orders for several counties to allow voters to cast provisional ballots at their local board of elections if their precincts were closed due to weather. Voting was moved in some precincts to accommodate those affected by the flooding.

Freezing rain also threatened to hinder turnout in parts of Cleveland and Dayton, forecasters reported. Later in the evening, reports came of bad weather hindering the ballot counts as snow and ice covered roads throughout Cuyahoga County, making it difficult for elections officials to get to the Board of Elections warehouse where the ballots were being counted.

Despite the severe weather, Brunner predicted a record turnout of upwards of 52 percent of registered voters, which would be an average of 15 percent higher than past presidential primaries. With 72 percent of precincts reporting, 1.55 million voters had cast ballots in Ohio's Democratic primary on Tuesday.  In 2004, that number was 1.2 million primary voters.

FOX News' Steve Brown and Jeff Goldblatt contributed to this report.