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More Absentee Ballots Cast in 2012 Than Ever Before in Ohio

Secretary of State Jon Husted said more than 1.86 million absentee ballots were counted in the November election, 120,000 more than were cast in 2008. Husted says two thirds of last fall’s absentee ballots were being mailed in, and 600,000 were cast in person.

HUSTED: "The program we put in place for early absentee ballots was successful in that we had more people vote early, which meant that that reduced the potential for lines on election day, which is what early voting is supposed to be all about."

Husted also says a record percentage of provisional ballots were counted - 83.5 percent, compared to 80 percent of the provisional ballots that were voted in 2008. Most of the rejected provisional ballots were thrown out because the would-be voter wasn’t registered to vote in Ohio.

Nick Castele was a senior reporter covering politics and government for Ideastream Public Media. He worked as a reporter for Ideastream from 2012-2022.