Ohio’s official primary Election Day has passed, but voters who didn’t get a chance to go to the polls March 17 because of the COVID-19 outbreak still can cast a ballot.
The Ohio General Assembly approved a plan on Wednesday to eliminate most in-person voting for the primary and to extend absentee voting until April 28 after Governor Mike DeWine’s administration closed the polls hours before they were set to open. The late-night decision prompted a directive from Secretary of State Frank LaRose to boards of elections telling them to extend absentee balloting and prepare for in-person voting on June 2. But lawmakers overruled that directive.
Now, after a week of lawsuits, debate about in-person voting during a global pandemic and questions about how quickly a vote-by-mail system could be pulled off, voters have some clarity about how to cast their primary ballots.
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