Still Time for Absentee Ballots: Mail-in absentee ballots can still be dropped off in person at boards of elections by 7:30 p.m. today.
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Officials said bottom line: voting will be easy as long as voters know their polling location, review a sample ballot and read the instructions.
The polls will close at 7:30 p.m.
Officials are now getting more than 200 precincts across Wake County set up and ready to go for the primary.
Registered voters, including those who qualify for a grace period after having completed their early registration, in Lake County may vote at polling places statewide in the March 15 general primary election. The counties that had the highest concentrations of provisional ballots were from counties with home addresses on or near a college campus. Last year, Hamilton County became the focal point of an Election Day court battle after technology problems caused delays and other issues at several Cincinnati-area polling places.
Election officials want people casting a vote on a Republican ballot to pay special attention this time as they mark their choice. All for the Republican nomination for President. 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the primary after a judge’s ruling last week.
“I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to exercise my right to vote and to have a say in who might potentially be running our country”, said the teenager from Liberty Twp.
While Butler County election officials said there have not been any issues, nor do they anticipate any issues on Tuesday, Warren County election officials say they’ve received many phone calls on the matter.
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Secretary of State Jon Husted said more than 417,000 Ohioans already had cast absentee ballots before polls opened Tuesday, about 80,000 more than in the 2012 presidential primary. “The recently enacted laws make it much harder for large populations of North Carolinians to vote, and they especially impact students in North Carolina”. The board of elections is predicting voter turnout of 40 percent to 45 percent today, though Poland said it’s too early to tell if that estimate will hold up over the course of the day.
