League of Women Voters of Ohio director answers your questions about voting in the midterm elections

We’re simply weeks away from the Nov. 8 basic election, and for a lot of who plan to vote early in individual or absentee, the time has already come. Early voting formally started yesterday for all registered voters. And it is a large election for Ohio voters, with a number of statewide races on the poll, together with Governor, Ohio Supreme Courtroom, U.S. Senate, plus two constitutional amendments. Many native races are on ballots as nicely, together with in Cuyahoga County, the race for county government. 

Quite a lot of vital dates and particulars go into voting on this 12 months’s election. For those who do plan to vote by mail, what is the deadline for requesting your absentee poll? When do you need to have it within the mail by for it to be counted by election day? When do they depend all these absentee votes anyhow? And, how do you discover out what’s even in your poll?

We needed to spend a while at the moment at first of the present to reply a few of the questions we considered relating to voting, and extra importantly reply YOUR questions that you simply may need about voting within the midterms this 12 months.  

Becoming a member of us at the moment is Jen Miller, Govt Director of the League of Girls Voters of Ohio. 

Ideastream Public Media lately posted a voter information for the midterm elections, that solutions plenty of voter questions. 

Later this hour, we’ll function reporting about Cleveland’s growing development of housing properties owned and managed by absent firms, and the tenants going through upkeep issues of their wake. 

And, it is one other episode of our music podcast Shuffle.