{"id":205510,"date":"2026-05-03T21:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205510"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:42:42","slug":"nearly-2000-local-voters-cast-early-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/03\/nearly-2000-local-voters-cast-early-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 2,000 local voters cast early ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio\u2019s early voting period officially closed at 5 p.m. Sunday and according to Van Wert County Board of Elections Director Pam Henderson, 1,808 registered voters cast early in-person ballots in the county, while 194 voted absentee by mail. 23 mail-in ballots have yet to be returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henderson said the expected turnout on Election Day, May 5, will likely be around 3,500, with voter turnout expected to be approximately 28 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polling locations will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. <em>The VW independent<\/em> will publish results Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Ohio\u2019s early voting period officially closed at 5 p.m. Sunday and according to Van Wert County Board of Elections Director Pam Henderson, 1,808 registered voters cast early in-person ballots in the county, while 194 voted absentee by mail. 23 mail-in ballots have yet to be returned. Henderson said the expected turnout on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 08:09:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205518,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205510\/revisions\/205518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}