Oak Bluffs residents rejected both proposition 2 and 1/2 override questions on Thursday’s special election ballot.

A total of 559 residents turned out to reject one override that would have restored $230,000 in cuts to the town’s road paving program, and another that would have to restored $254,000 in cuts to hire a town finance director, two teaching aides at the Oak Bluffs school, an animal control officer and an assistant for the shellfish department.

The first ballot question was defeated 376-182 and the second was defeated 387-170.

On Thursday town clerk Deborah Ratcliff said that she was not certain that the election was properly posted. If it wasn’t, she said, then the town would have to add an article to its June 21 special town meeting warrant to petition the state legislature to accept the results of the election.