early voting

As of the Friday before the 2024 general election, the total number of early votes cast have surpassed the last general election before the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of mail-in votes so far has dropped significantly, compared to 2020, when many voted by mail because of the pandemic.

Questions about early voting in Ohio and death have been raised as former President Jimmy Carter, who is in ill health, plans to vote early in Georgia.

Early voting started on Oct. 8. Since then, about 60,000 people have voted in Franklin County and its immediate neighboring counties.

Democratic nominee U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican nominee Bernie Moreno held competing events outside the Franklin County Board of Elections. Franklin County is Ohio's most populous county.

Franklin County is expected to vote heavily Democratic again, but Delaware County has gone from being a red county to a swing county in recent elecitons.

Registered Ohioans can now cast early ballots in the 2024 presidential and U.S. Senate primaries statewide and on other candidates and issues locally.

A group that wants to get rid of new Ohio laws requiring voters to show photo ID and limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county has resubmitted its amendment to do that and more, after it was rejected by the attorney general last month.

Republican officials want GOP voters to embrace the habit of early voting. But the Republican Party needs its voters to overcome a stigma created by Republicans.

Early voting turnout for Ohio's Nov. 7 election - which has statewide questions on abortion and reproductive rights and recreational marijuana - has outpaced the number of voters who cast early ballots in the August special election.

Early voting numbers in Ohio for the Nov. 7 election on Issues 1 and 2, as well as local candidate and issue races, are up 8% from the August special election, a statewide election on just one constitutional amendment.