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Darrel Rowland is the politics editor for the Columbus paper. Dispatch .com. If you're following the Ohio12th-almost flipped in August from blood red, you'll be able to follow that race here & the Governors race- Cordray (Dem) & DeWine( heartless asshole) is neck & neck.
Darrel Rowland (@darreldrowland) Tweeted:
BREAKING Franklin County early voting stats thru Sunday:
2018 in-person voting now FOUR times 2014 total (a tepid year for turnout)
53% of ballots cast by Dems, 13% by GOP
Voting by mail up 10% over 2014
Of mail ballots counted, 37% from Dems, 24% GOP
Link to tweet
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)I'll poke around a bit to see if there is an answer.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)There is the list of all the Ohio Counties, Franklin Co is partway down.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)from national database of early vote to district specific. If you are interested in national data:
http://www.electproject.org/early_2018
I hope to see update posted today
irisblue
(33,023 posts)Not quite the level of Kemp of Ga., but this SCOTUS ruling slid by many.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/us/politics/supreme-court-upholds-ohios-purge-of-voting-rolls.html
snip..."by Adam Liptak, June 11, 2018
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohios aggressive efforts to purge its voting rolls, siding with Republicans in the latest partisan battle over how far states can go in imposing restrictions on voting.
The court ruled that states may kick people off the rolls if they skip a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from election officials. The vote was 5 to 4, with the more conservative justices in the majority.
On one level, the decision sought to make sense of tangled statutory language. But it was also a vivid reminder that measures placing obstacles between people seeking to vote and their ability to cast ballots including cutbacks on early voting, elimination of same-day registration and tough voter ID laws present dueling visions of democracy.
Republicans have pushed for such restrictions, arguing without evidence that they are needed to combat what they say is widespread voter fraud. Democrats have pushed back, countering that the efforts are part of an attempt to suppress voting by Democratic constituencies, particularly minorities."
first 4 paragraphs, more at article. Ohio Republican Sec of States have a tainted history, in particular 2004 and Ken Blackwell.