What Ohio voters need to know ahead of early voting

Unlike Indiana.,Ohio voters can mail in their ballots this November without an excuse.

Unlike indiana..ohio voters can mail in their ballots this november without an excuse.but not everyone says they're going to take advantage of it.

Fox 55's jentill neal was in van wert county today for a look at what voting in northwest ohio will look like this year.jentill?

Hunter, on thursday i talked to indiana voters who wished they could vote by mail in november today i talked to an ohio voter who says he intends to cast his ballot at the polls here's why.

Van wert resident kent bradford says he's voting in person this time abiding by the cdc guidelines.

He voted by mail for the primary election.>12:54:51-12:55:09 "respecting the social distancing using the mask... the voting booths where i vote are partitioned anyway, so it's not like you're breathing on the person next to you or vice versa so i'm ok with that."

He says doesn't want to take any chances with all the concerns about voting by mail for the general election..

> 12:55:57-12:56:25"on tv they say there aren't many incidents.

I'm a little hesitant.

I'm old school.

I think people should go out and exercise their right to vote, but you've gotta make an effort in this whole thing.

With the coronavirus, i'm not afraid of that.

I'm sure there are people that are."in ohio, you don't need an excuse to vote by mail so anyone who is registered to vote can use that method.there's a drop box near the entrance of the van wert county elections location if you don't want to drop it in a regular mail box.

> 00:04:33-00:04:48"that's for anyone's convienice to drop off a vote by mail absentee application or to drop off their ballot once they receive it instead of putting it back in the mail."van wert deputy director brenda weaver says using the drop box option shouldn't be a problem because it will be accessible 24/7.

However, the one thing that may stick out to voters is the number of absentee ballots coming through the mail.> 00:06:20-00:06:48"the state will also be mailing one of those to our currently registered voters.

The mailing should be going out somewhere around labor day.

So some people may be around labor somewhere be going out mailing should voters.

The registered currently to our one of those also be mailing "the state will 00:06:20-00:06:48>mail.

Through the mail.through the ballots coming absentee the number of absentee ballots coming through the mail.> 00:06:20-00:06:48 if you have filled out more than one by mistake, once those arrive at the board of elections office, they put it in their system once they receive the first one.

Weaver says the system will flag if they try to put a second one in for that individual.

Reporting live jentill neal... fox