Nearly 1.8 Million Ohioans Cast Early Ballots in 2016 Election

OHIO - Just one day ahead of the 2016 Presidential General Election, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that an estimated 1,798,277 absentee ballots were cast statewide ahead of Election Day. This includes 13,893 ballots cast by military and overseas voters. Voting for military and overseas personnel began on September 24th and all absentee voting began on October 12th, the day after the close of registration.

In Cuyahoga County, 218,711 early votes were cast while 251,309 ballots were requested. In neighboring Lorain County, 52,397 early votes were cast, while 57,659 ballots were requested.

Voters who have not mailed their ballot before Election Day may still deliver the ballot in-person to their board of elections before the polls close at 7:30pm.

2016 Presidential Election By-the-Numbers

• 7,861,343 Ohioans are registered to vote.
• 1,994,911 voters requested an absentee ballot.
  • Of those, 1,798,277 have been cast.
• 661,549 voters requested and cast an absentee ballot in-person.
• 22,886 military & overseas voters requested an absentee ballot.
  • Of those, 13,893 have been cast.

Just one day ahead of the 2012 Presidential Election, nearly 2 million absentee ballots had been requested with nearly 1.8 million ballots having been already cast (see November 5, 2016 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.

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