Early Voting Begins, Find Your Strongsville Voting Location

STRONGSVILLE, OH - Early voting has begun in Cuyahoga County for the Nov. 8 election and nearly 10,000 Strongsville residents have requested vote by mail ballots.

According to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, 9,622 vote by mail ballots were requested by Strongsville citizens, the second most of any city in the county. The majority of the requests came from the city's Republicans, with 4,079 requesting vote by mail ballots. Strongsville Democrats requested 2,476 ballots and 3,057 requests came from citizens without a political party identification. Another 10 requests came from citizens identifying with a minor party.

Four Strongsville vote by mail ballots have already been returned.

A total of 171,244 vote by mail ballots have been requested from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (BOE) and 291 have already been returned.

If you're waiting for Nov. 8 to cast your ballot, make sure you know where you're casting your vote. The BOE has recently consolidated some cities' voting precincts. You can view Strongsville's voting map here.

Besides casting a vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or a third-party candidate, residents will be asked to vote for or against a 6-mill tax renewal for the Strongsville Schools. If approved, the levy would not raise taxes for voters.

There are 883,341 registered voters in Cuyahoga County, the majority of which identify as nonpartisan voters. There are also less voters identifying with a minor party than in the previous election, with 562 voters identifying with such a party. There were 1,458 minor party voters in 2012. A surprising number considering the widespread angst over the major parties candidates.

Image from Cuyahoga County Board of Elections