Ohioans won't know final, official election results for weeks

[Kathy M]

17. Found this article interesting , it was also dated end of Aug . By now requests are higher

"But Ohio’s no-fault absentee system allows any registered voter to request a ballot. Absentee requests received now can be processed, but the first wave of ballots won’t be mailed to voters until Oct. 6.

Reporters from The Dispatch and other papers in the Gannett Ohio chain surveyed boards of elections in all 88 Ohio counties last week. The 75 that responded with either hard figures or estimates said they have received about 400,000 so far.

In the entirety of the 2016 general election, boards of elections sent fewer than 1.3 million absentee ballots to voters.

Several boards reported that they already have hired temporary staff members to help deal with the onslaught of mail and phone calls. Most had planned to bring in seasonal employees after Labor Day.

?‘A lot’ is putting it mildly,” said Tony Perlatti, director of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, of the 80,000 absentee requests received there so far.

Perlatti said Cuyahoga County had processed about 50,000

Franklin County already had about 46,500 absentee requests last week, and Hamilton County had nearly 30,000.

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200823/absentee-ballot-requests-flooding-ohio-elections-boards-like-never-before/1

more counties listed at site with numbers .