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16 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
With COVID numbers soaring, new signs at the Ohio Statehouse show the building is now requiring masks, instead of them being "highly recommended". House and Senate Committee meetings are scheduled for tomorrow, and both chambers are scheduled to be in session Wednesday.
Republican former Speaker Larry @HouseholderOH (who was re-elected to his seat) said repeatedly he couldn't require members of the House to wear masks. His replacement @SpeakerCupp will wear a mask, but hasn't announced if it will be required in the House
.@SpeakerCupp is dealing with some prominent mask opponents in his caucus, including Rep. Candice Keller (R-Middletown) and perhaps most notably @NinoVit - who posted this pic of Cupp and his wife wearing masks at Cupp's swearing in facebook.com/RepVitale/phot…
Ohio Senate President @LarryObhof has encouraged mask wearing for Senators, but not required it. He is often seen in a mask, but not always.
Update: as Ohio lawmakers come back for lame duck session - under rules determined by the legislative branch - the sign reminding people that masks are required at the Statehouse is gone. Not sure what happened to it.
I will note that nearly all lawmakers I saw today in the hallways and garage were wearing masks. Will be interesting to see House and Senate sessions tomorrow.

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17 Nov
"I have seen illness and death on a scale that I have never seen in my career. I have admitted families. I've had to put spouses next to each other while one or both die. These are things that I have never had to do before." From a Ohio doctor I talked to this morning. (more)
This doc is at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, and had never done an interview before, but agreed to share his views for this week's @stateofohioshow about what he's seeing. He also said: "Every night, we deal with folks who don't believe they have COVID."
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28 Oct
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%.
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26 Oct
The last week of early voting in Ohio starts tomorrow. Already in 2020 in Ohio, there’s been a record 51% increase in absentee ballot requests and in-person votes over all of those early votes in 2016. Here are some breakdowns of four key counties.
Erie and Portage were two bellwether counties in 2016, which means they most closely mirrored the state’s overall vote. President Trump won Ohio by 8.1%. He won Erie by 9.6% and Portage by 9.9%. Erie and Portage are also the most evenly divided among partisan affiliated voters.
In Erie County, there are 12,335 Republican-affiliated voters, 12,213 Democrats – a difference of .23%. In Portage County, there are 23,851 Democratic-affiliated voters and 23,692 Republicans – a difference of .15%.
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22 Oct
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)
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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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