The figures exclude data from 11 counties, including Franklin County, where the 18 to 29 age demographic made up only 7% of mail ballots and 3.5% of in-person votes on the second day. Although early voting in Franklin County favored Brown by 44 points, baby boomers and Generation X dominated the in-person count. Separate tallies from Miami County on Oct. 8 recorded 234 Republican and 122 Democratic votes.
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Sherrod Brown Leads Early Ohio Senate Votes with 51.8% to 59.9% Share
US Politics11 days ago
VoteHub has registered 63,471 person-linked early ballots in Ohio's U.S. Senate race as of Oct. 8, representing 1.5% of the total turnout projection. Democrat Sherrod Brown is estimated to hold between 51.8% and 59.9% of those votes, while Republican Jon Husted is estimated to hold 37.9% to 46.1%. Based on these early totals, VoteHub currently rates the race as Lean D.
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