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18-24-year-old return rate is more than than 85%
By Pulse Staff
The Ohio Secretary of State office announced as of 1:30 p.m. Nov. 4, the state received 995,482 absentee ballots of 1,147,887 absentee ballots requested. That’s an 86.7% return rate. It also says 1,536,778 people have voted early in person giving the state a total of 2.5 million ballots already cast before election day.
The Ohio SOS office announced new data analytics and archives data dashboard for absentee and early voting for the November 2024 general election.
The dashboard breaks the ballots down by age group with approximately 165,107 out of 193,152 ballots returned in the 18-24 age range giving the college age group an 85.4% return rate. The most ballots returned are in the 65 and older age group with 1,007,311 out of 1,045,439 ballots requested giving the group a 96.4% return rate.
Unaffiliated voters ranked the highest in absentee ballots and returns with 1,504,556 requests and 1,376,856 returned. Republicans requested 721,511 and returned 707,741 while Democrats requested 458,308 and returned 447,656 absentee ballots.
In Hancock County, the return rate on absentee ballots was at 89.5% with 5,035 requested and 4,504 returned.
The information is provided by each county to the Ohio SOS’s office and updated daily.
In Ohio, the deadline to request an absentee ballot was last Tuesday, Oct. 29. The Ohio SOS website says absentee ballots must be postmarked by the day before the election in order to be counted. Or voters can return their absentee ballot in person to your county board of elections before the close of the polls at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day.
Absentee ballots are the first votes counted on Election Night.
