俄亥俄州提前投票逾170万创纪录：州长拉马斯瓦米对决阿克顿
11月3日，俄亥俄州投票站于上午6时30分开放，晚上7时30分关闭，晚上7时30分仍在排队的选民仍可投票，邮寄缺席选票须在选举日晚上7时30分前送达县选举委员会才计入统计。
州务卿办公室的数据显示，已有超过170万俄亥俄州选民提前投票，创下中期选举提前投票新纪录，超过2022年中期选举的150万人；其中近110万人于11月1日提前投票截止前现场投票，约63.2万张邮寄选票已经交回，另有超过10.4万张缺席选票尚未交回。
本次选举的最大看点是州长之争，共和党候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米对阵民主党候选人艾米·阿克顿，接替已任满两届的现任州长迈克·德怀恩；联邦参议员席位由共和党籍现任参议员乔恩·赫斯特对阵谋求重返参议院的民主党籍前参议员谢罗德·布朗，该席位是现任副总统万斯2022年赢得任期的剩余两年任期。
选民还将决定州务卿、总检察长、审计长和财政长等全州行政职位，以及州最高法院的两个席位，并对第3号提案投票，该提案拟将选民带照片身份证件的要求写入州宪法。在汉密尔顿县，投票开始一小时后已有超过五分之一的登记选民完成投票，县选举委员会上午7时30分的数据显示，首小时现场投票19576人，加上提前和邮寄投票118997人，合计138573票，投票率已达22%，相当于2022年中期选举总投票率的45%。
（来源：辛辛那提问询报）
Ohio Early Voting Tops 1.7 Million, a Midterm Record, as Ramaswamy Faces Acton for Governor
Ohio polls were open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on November 3, with voters in line at 7:30 p.m. still able to vote; mailed absentee ballots had to reach county boards of elections by 7:30 p.m. to count. The Secretary of State's figures showed more than 1.7 million Ohioans had already voted early, a midterm record above the 1.5 million of 2022: nearly 1.1 million voted in person by the November 1 early-voting deadline, about 632,000 mail ballots had been returned, and more than 104,000 absentee ballots were still outstanding. The top race was for governor, with Republican Vivek Ramaswamy facing Democrat Amy Acton to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine. The Senate race pitted Republican Sen. Jon Husted against Democrat and former Sen. Sherrod Brown for the remaining two years of the term Vice President JD Vance won in 2022. Voters also chose secretary of state, attorney general, auditor and treasurer, two state Supreme Court seats, and decided Issue 3, which would write the photo-ID voting requirement into the state constitution. In Hamilton County, more than a fifth of registered voters had cast ballots within the first hour: by 7:30 a.m., 19,576 in-person votes plus 118,997 early and mail ballots totaled 138,573, a 22% turnout equal to 45% of the county's entire 2022 midterm turnout.
(Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer)
来源：辛辛那提问询报
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