Gov. DeWine weighing whether to eliminate Ohio’s absentee ballot grace period

Gov. DeWine weighing whether to eliminate Ohio’s absentee ballot grace period

Stacks of boxes holding mail are seen at a U.S. Post Office sorting center. (Stock photo by Justin Sullivan | Getty Images.)Every election, in almost every Ohio county, absentee ballots show up at county boards a few days after Election Day. And in many counties, some of those otherwise valid ballots don’t wind up counting for reasons outside the voter’s control. In the 2024 presidential election, at least 1,059 of those ballots got thrown out. …