absentee ballots

The Franklin County Board of Elections said it will send out corrected absentee ballots within 72 hours of identifying voters who recieved ballots with…

Secretary of State Frank LaRose has issued a directive for the Franklin County Board of Elections to fix a mistake where incorrect absentee ballots were…

The flurry of last-minute legal action comes as more than 5 million people have already cast ballots, causing some confusion over what voters have to do to ensure that their votes count.

Updated: 11:50 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections will not collect completed ballots at local libraries this fall, despite a federal judge’s ruling this week that seemed to allow it, a board member told ideastream Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Dan Polster interpreted a recent state election directive more broadly than Secretary of State Frank LaRose intended, Democratic board member Inajo Davis Chappell said.

Voters around the state stood in long, socially-distanced lines yesterday on the first day of early voting in Ohio.More than 2 million absentee ballots…

A “significant” number of Franklin County voters received the wrong absentee ballots in the mail this week.On Tuesday, when voters began receiving their…

The number of voters on the first day of early voting in Stark County easily surpassed the number who turned out in 2016 and 2008.

Stark County resident Don Woodward guessed he was mistakenly signed up for poll worker training when he got an envelope from the county’s board of…

Officials with the Franklin County Board of Elections stopped by the post office on Monday—with about a quarter-million absentee ballots.The deadline to…

Unlike some other states, Ohio will get a head start processing ballots as absentee votes begin streaming into county election boards this month. Ohio’s voting procedures allow election officials to verify voter identities, open absentee envelopes and scan ballots before Election Day. What staff can’t do before the polls close Nov. 3 is tabulate those votes – that is, produce a readable report of results to date.