Absentee Ballots

The Ohio Senate has approved a bill restricting who may send unsolicited absentee ballot applications to voters and for what election years.

Last year, all Ohio voters got absentee voter applications – whether they requested them or not – as a way to settle a fight over whether counties could send out those forms unsolicited.

An analysis of absentee ballot requests by a University of Dayton history professor shows a significant shift in Republican enthusiasm since 2008.

More than a million of Ohio's nearly 8 million registered voters have taken steps to cast a ballot.