Election officials in Ohio seeing no major vote problems

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State election officials say voting appeared to be going smoothly at polls in Ohio early on Election Day.

A spokesman for Ohio's Secretary of State's Office said no major problems were reported in the first few hours of voting Tuesday. Spokesman Sam Rossi said the state had no turnout predictions yet.

Polls opened at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and will close at 7:30 p.m.

State election officials say more than 1.4 million absentee ballots had been requested and more than 1.3 million ballots had been cast by mail and in person at the close of in-person absentee voting Monday. At that same point during 2014 absentee voting, nearly one million absentee ballots had been requested and more than 813,000 were cast.

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