1.1 million Ohioans have already mailed in absentee ballots or cast them in person – more than 2x the number who'd voted at this point in 2016. And Ohioans will know a lot about those vote totals as soon as the polls close on election night. Here's a thread to explain why (more):
Nearly all absentee ballots will be at Ohio boards of elections by Election Night, but all those postmarked by Nov 2 will be counted up to 10 days after Election Day. So elections officials will have started processing almost all absentee ballots by Election Day. (more)
In 2006, the first year Ohio allowed no-fault absentee voting, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections expected a lot of voters to try out the new system. So the board wanted to start scanning the ballots before the polls closed on election night. (more)
The Plain Dealer reported in 2006 that Cuyahoga County elections director Michael Vu wanted to start scanning because it could take over 22 hours to scan up to 90,000 absentee ballots he estimated, three times the number of absentee ballots received in the primary in May. (more)
Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, who was running for governor in 2006, banned scanning before the polls closed on Election Day. Then-Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason and then-Commissioner Jimmy Dimora asked county judge Dan Gaul to overturn that directive. (more)
A few days before Election Day 2006, Cuyahoga County Judge Dan Gaul overturned Secretary of State Ken Blackwell's ban on early scanning, saying there was a risk that election results would not be reported in a timely manner, as required under state law. (more)
That ruling from Judge Gaul just before Election Day 2006 applied to all 88 counties, saying they could start scanning absentee ballots at 7am the day before Election Day, though the results couldn't be disclosed till after the polls closed. The state didn't appeal. (more)
So Ohio's absentee ballots can be the first results reported. While key states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia have to wait till Election Day to scan their ballots and get results, Ohio will know a lot sooner most of the totals from early ballots here.
And Ohioans will know on Election Night how many outstanding absentee and provisional ballots there are, as Secretary of State @FrankLaRose says for the first time, those outstanding ballot totals will be posted on the main results page. -30- statenews.org/post/larose-wa…

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19 Oct
Third week of early voting in Ohio starts tomorrow. So far in 60 of 88 counties - a mix of small, medium and large counties - 1,667,476 Ohioans have voted early in person or requested absentee ballots. That's a 34% increase over the total of 1,242,568 who did so in ALL of 2016.
Just over half of the 1.6 m who've voted/requested ballots are unaffiliated - a 52% increase over unaffiliated who voted in person and requested absentee ballots in all of 2016. There's a 63% increase in Democratic-affiliated voters and a 15% drop in Republican affiliated voters.
In very red Warren County so far in 2020, there's been a 35% increase of early votes/absentee requests over all of 2016. There’s been a 61% increase in unaffiliated voters, a 124% increase in Democratic-affiliated voters and an 18% drop in Republican-affiliated early voters.
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15 Oct
Early voting in Ohio: Here are some new numbers on absentee ballots and in-person numbers for a few key counties where clear and similar patterns are emerging (please note there's no assumption that a voter affiliated with a party will cast their ballot for that party):
Mahoning - the only Youngstown-area county that Trump didn't win in 2016 - has already seen a 25% increase in all absentee requests and early in-person votes compared to all in 2016, with a 41% increase fr both Democratic & unaffiliated voters and a 28% decline fr Republicans.
Trump won Lake County by more than 15 points in 2016 and some have speculated will be this year's bellwether. It's seen a 31% increase over all votes cast early in all of 2016, with more ballots from unaffiliated voters than Republican and Democratic votes together.
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13 Oct
As Ohio starts its second week of early voting, how early voting is going in other states, beginning with Texas:
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13 Oct
Second week of early voting in Ohio starts tomorrow. Here's some info about absentee ballot requests and in-person voting so far in 2020, with some breakdowns of partisan-affiliated voters. At least 2,154,235 Ohio voters have sent absentee ballots requests, which is a record.
So far in 60 Ohio counties, including the 3 largest, Democratic-affiliated voters mailed in 240,643 more absentee ballot requests than Republican-affiliated voters. In all of 2016, GOP-affiliated voters sent in 50,927 more requests than Dem-affiliated voters in those counties.
Most requests are from unaffiliated voters. But in those 60 Ohio counties in 2016, 55% of partisan-affiliated ballot requests were from Republicans, 45% Democrats. So far in those 60 counties in 2020, 66% of partisan-affiliated ballot requests are from Democrats, 34% GOP.
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6 Oct
Breakdown of partisan-affiliated absentee ballot requests from Ohio's biggest counties, as early voting starts tomorrow: As of yesterday in Cuyahoga County, 80% of requests so far Democrats, 20% from Republicans. For all mailed ballots in 2016, the split was 64% Dems, 36% GOP.
In Hamilton County, as of yesterday 69% of requests from partisan-affiliated voters are from Democrats, 31% from Republicans. For all mailed ballots in 2016, the split was 56% Democrats, 44% Republicans.
In Franklin County, as of yesterday 76% of requests from partisan-affiliated voters are from Democrats, 24% from Republicans. That's a flip from all mailed ballots in 2016, when the split was 44% Democrats, 56% Republicans.
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5 Oct
A brag to end the week - congratulations to @joingles, @andy_chow and Dan/aka @stateofohioshow for our five 2020 Ohio SPJ Awards, in radio & TV. Our team kills it every day and I love working with them. Also! Kudos to our friends at @917wvxu, @WKSU and @WCPN/@WVIZ for their wins!
Incoming - some of our winning work!

One was for Best Continuing Coverage with our reporting on HB 6, the nuclear bailout law, with @andy_chow leading the way. Here's a sample:
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And I helped with that winning package on the nuclear bailout law:
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