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Early vote centers throughout the state have been busy all weekend. Many have seen lines out the door ever since October 6, when Ohioans could begin…

Election Day is here. Polls open in Ohio at 6:30 a.m. on November 3, and close at 7:30 p.m. The U.S. presidential race, all 16 Ohio congressional seats…

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says a record 56,789 people are trained and ready to be poll workers this year.“Ohioans are stepping up to serve as…

In many key counties, volunteers have stepped up to fill poll worker shortages. But elsewhere staffing concerns continue.

If you’ve requested an absentee ballot, now is the time return it to your local board of elections, Ohio election officials said Wednesday. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 2, the day before Election Day. Boards will accept properly postmarked absentees up until 10 days after the election, adding valid late arrivals to the post-election official vote canvass.

Ohio boards of elections are seeing an unprecedented flood of early in-person voting and dropping off of absentee ballots, in spite of heated partisanship…

This fall, election workers will sort mountains of paper, upload data from thousands of USB sticks and tabulate millions of votes — all to tell Ohioans who won their 18 electors, who will don judges’ robes, who will ascend to local office and who will pay more in taxes. How do county election boards keep it all straight? “You have to be extremely organized,” Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Director Anthony Perlatti said. “We put a bar code on everything, we label everything.”

A direct mail company that’s been hired to print and distribute absentee ballots to Ohioans who requested them has not been able to get them to voters...

If you wear your red "Make America Great Again" hat or your "Ridin' with Biden" t-shirt to the polls this fall, you could be asked to remove it or turn…

In the latest legal wrangling over Ohio's ballot drop boxes, a federal judge in Cleveland has temporarily blocked Secretary of State Frank LaRose's…