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More than 26,000 Franklin County residents have voted in-person or returned their replacement ballots since receiving incorrect ones earlier this month.As鈥�

There are only a few days left before Election Day, and while millions of Ohioans have already cast their ballots early in-person or by mail, that process鈥�

In theory, this Saturday, Oct. 31 is the deadline to request an absentee ballot in Ohio. But in practice, it may already be too late.Applications for the鈥�

Updated: 1:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 In Ohio, local elections officials process absentee ballots as soon as they get them. That offers not only a sense of how many people are voting in person or by mail, but how many ballots have been flagged for errors. ideastream鈥檚 Morning Edition host Amy Eddings talked with Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Spokesman Mike West about the process of "curing" irregular ballots.

It was the second time the high court refused a GOP effort to block a three-day extension for receiving absentee ballots in Pennsylvania. Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in either case.

If you鈥檝e 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鈥�

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

A federal lawsuit against Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose that could have allowed counties to add more ballot drop boxes at various locations for the鈥�

The pandemic has upset the usual protocol for voting and created political fights out of logistical issues.Voters have requested a record 2.7 million鈥�