CLARK COUNTY — More than one million Ohioans have already cast their votes ahead of next week’s Midterm Election.
In Clark County alone, more than 8,000 people chose to vote in person at the Board of Elections office in Springfield.
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Diana Boyd was one of the many who chose to vote early.
“I think they just wanted to make sure they get the right people in so that we can get some things done,” she said.
Jason Baker, the director at the Clark County Board of Elections, said that early voting is up 200 percent compared to the last midterm.
“It has been on the rise over the last few years. I didn’t expect it to be at the level that it is now, but we welcome it,” he said.
Baker said it was nice to be busy with people coming to the Board of Elections to vote.
In Montgomery County, 22,253 people have voted early, according to the Secretary of State’s website.
More than 14,000 people in Greene County have cast their votes ahead of the Midterm.
And over 9,000 people have voted early in Miami County.
In Clark County, voters said that the U.S. Senate race and the gubernatorial races are driving the large turnout.
“I think it’s part of our responsibility to guarantee that our government is going to run the way we think it should be run,” said Mary Dunn.
Ohioans still have time to vote early. Early voting ends on Sunday, Nov. 1.
There is no early in-person voting on Monday.
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