Secretary Husted announces more than 1.2 million absentee ballot applications received
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Just 22 days ahead of the 2016 Presidential General Election, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that as of Friday, Oct. 14, an estimated 1,245,670 absentee ballots had been requested statewide. This includes 19,770 requests from military and overseas voters whose absentee ballots started going out on Saturday, Sept. 24. Ballots for all other voters started going out on Oct. 12, and a total of 74,249 have been cast by mail and in person.
2016 Presidential Election By-the-Numbers:
• 7,784,128 Ohioans are registered to vote.
• 1,181,358 voters have requested an absentee ballot by mail as of Friday. Of those, 9,937 have been cast.
• 64,312 voters have requested and cast an absentee ballot in person as of Friday.
• 19,770 military & overseas voters have requested an absentee ballot as of Friday. Of those, 3,241 have been cast.
Absentee ballot applications must be received by boards of elections by noon on Saturday, Nov. 5, but voters are encouraged to submit their request as soon as possible to ensure sufficient time to complete and return their ballot to the board of elections.
Completed absentee ballots must be postmarked by the day before the election and arrive at the board of elections within 10 days of Election Day in order to be counted. Ohio is only one of 12 states to allow late-arriving ballots to be counted.
If you have not mailed your ballot prior to election week, the Secretary of State’s Office recommends voters take their completed ballot to the post office and request it receive a postage cancellation marking, or return it personally to their county board of elections prior to the close of the polls at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.
To encourage voters to take advantage of absentee voting by mail Secretary Husted recently mailed applications to voters. Additional information about the statewide mailing is available here. Voters who want to vote by mail may also download an absentee ballot request form at www.MyOhioVote.com.
At this same point in time ahead of the start of absentee voting in 2012, approximately 1.4 million absentee ballots had been requested (see Oct. 17, 2012 release). That year marked the first-ever statewide mailing of absentee ballot applications and voters who took advantage of this option represented a third of all ballots cast in that election – a record 1.87 million absentee ballots were cast by mail and in person.
2016 Presidential Election By-the-Numbers:
• 7,784,128 Ohioans are registered to vote.
• 1,181,358 voters have requested an absentee ballot by mail as of Friday. Of those, 9,937 have been cast.
• 64,312 voters have requested and cast an absentee ballot in person as of Friday.
• 19,770 military & overseas voters have requested an absentee ballot as of Friday. Of those, 3,241 have been cast.
Absentee ballot applications must be received by boards of elections by noon on Saturday, Nov. 5, but voters are encouraged to submit their request as soon as possible to ensure sufficient time to complete and return their ballot to the board of elections.
Completed absentee ballots must be postmarked by the day before the election and arrive at the board of elections within 10 days of Election Day in order to be counted. Ohio is only one of 12 states to allow late-arriving ballots to be counted.
If you have not mailed your ballot prior to election week, the Secretary of State’s Office recommends voters take their completed ballot to the post office and request it receive a postage cancellation marking, or return it personally to their county board of elections prior to the close of the polls at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.
To encourage voters to take advantage of absentee voting by mail Secretary Husted recently mailed applications to voters. Additional information about the statewide mailing is available here. Voters who want to vote by mail may also download an absentee ballot request form at www.MyOhioVote.com.
At this same point in time ahead of the start of absentee voting in 2012, approximately 1.4 million absentee ballots had been requested (see Oct. 17, 2012 release). That year marked the first-ever statewide mailing of absentee ballot applications and voters who took advantage of this option represented a third of all ballots cast in that election – a record 1.87 million absentee ballots were cast by mail and in person.