Thread by @karenkasler

There's less than a week till Election Day, with early voting in Ohio going till Nov 2.

2.2 million Ohioans have voted early, compared to 1.9 million in all of 2016. In the 60 counties where data is available for both 2020 and 2016, here's what early voting looks like.

In those 60 Ohio counties, so far in 2020 there's been an increase of 756,163 absentee ballot requests or in person early votes over all of those votes in 2016. That's a 61% increase.

490,506 of that increase is from those not affiliated with a party. That's an 88% increase among unaffiliated voters. There's been an increase of 245,910 of those votes from Democratic-affiliated voters - or 81%. There's an increase of 19,747 Republican-affiliated votes - or 5%.

In those 60 Ohio counties, 57% of Democratic-affiliated voters have requested absentee ballots or voted early in person. 32% of Republican-affiliated voters have done the same. Unaffiliated voters are at 36%.

There are 8,073,417 registered voters in Ohio as of the close of voter registration – a higher total than in any year since the record of more than 8.2 million in 2008. And 39% of registered voters in those 60 counties have requested an absentee ballot or voted early in person.