COLUMBUS – With less than a week remaining for voters to cast their ballots in Ohio’s pandemic-delayed primary election, voter participation is on a slow pace.
Important Vote-By-Mail Deadlines
Saturday, April 25 – 12:00 noon – Application deadline – No ballot will be sent for any application received after noon.
Monday, April 27 – midnight – Ballots mailed to local boards of elections must be postmarked
Tuesday, April 28 – 7:30 p.m. – Deadline for hand-delivery of completed ballots to the boards of elections
-Source: Franklin Co. Bd. of Elections
Numbers released by Secretary of State Frank LaRose Tuesday show fewer than a fourth of registered voters had requested an absentee ballot by the end of last week.
According to LaRose’s office, 1.67 million Ohioans had requested a vote-by-mail ballot over 975,000 – including 172,000 from Franklin County — have already voted.
LaRose says voting is going relatively smoothly under the unprecedented circumstances.
State authorities canceled in-person voting hours before the scheduled March 17 primary, and then replaced it with voting that is nearly all absentee.
There will be in-person voting April 28 restricted to disabled voters and homeless people.