CLEVELAND -- Issues that brought many Cuyahoga County voters to the polls were Issues 5 and 6, which both deal with county government reform.

Issue 5 would elect a commission to study how to best reform Cuyahoga County government, but voters are saying they don't want that.

Instead they are saying yes to Issue 6, which would immediately change the county charter, scrapping the three commissioner system for an elected executive and 11-member county council.

With 53 percent of precincts reporting, 72 percent of voters are rejecting Issue 5, while Issue 6 is passing with 66 percent of the vote.

It appears that voters did not want to wait to reform government. Supporters of Issue 6 claim they've won and that Issue 5 will go down in defeat.

With that, citizens are about to witness the biggest shift in county government in many years, reported NewsChannel5's Duane Pohlman.

Issue 6 supporters include county prosecutor Bill Mason and Parma Heights Mayor Marty Zanotti.

"This is probably the biggest change in Ohio County Government in 175 years. It's not us who are here tonight who are the winners, it's our children and it's the region who have won here today," said Mason.

Zanotti said, "I think the voters said very clear, 'Look! We want change and we want it now. It's time for a new future and you guys have made a good case. Let's go.'"

If Issue 6 does pass, a year from now the county will shift to the new form of government.

The change was triggered by the constant news of corruption, and the vote appears to be a clear message that the old ways of cronyism and patronage is in the past.