Early Voting

Vindy Staff | Posted October 12th 2016

Evelyn Koch, a Youngstown State University freshman who recently moved here from Omaha, Neb., gave serious consideration to her first ever vote being a “protest.” Koch, 19, who supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, said she thought about voting for the Vermont senator. Instead, Koch, the second person to vote in Mahoning County, said she cast her ballot for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “The protest vote would have made it harder to get anything done,” Koch said. Koch, who lives on the YSU campus, changed her voter registration from her home state of Nebraska. Ohio “is more of a battleground state, and my vote has more impact,” she said.