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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
COLUMBUS — Ohio's top elections official says about 500,000 voters cast absentee ballots for last week's election, a record for a primary.
The 503,601 voters who voted absentee represent about 14 percent of the total number of ballots that were cast during the March 4 election, which also had a record turnout for a primary.
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Officials expected an absentee record because it was the first presidential primary in which voters could vote absentee without having to give a reason.
All voters could either request an absentee ballot through the mail weeks before the election, or show up at their local boards of election before election day.
In the 2004 primary, 142,012 absentee ballots were counted. In the 2006 general election, 639,416 absentee ballots were counted.
