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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Officials from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland were on target in predicting a 25 percent voter turnout and at least a 15 percent decrease in voter turnout in the county for this year's primary compared to 2016 in response to the coronavirus outbreak as Ohio's no-voting-at-the-polls deadline was April 28, a rescheduled mail-in ballot election authorized under a new state law approved overwhelming by the state legislature.
Except for special cases, such as the legally blind who could vote in person at boards of elections, Ohio's primary was essentially relegated to a mail-in-only ballot election.
Some 192,065 voters casts ballots in the county for this year's primary out of 858, 057 registered voters, a 23 percent voter turnout compared to 44 percent relative to county results for the March 2016 primary election in Ohio.
In short, there was a 21 percent decrease in voter turnout in the county in comparison to 2016, notwithstanding that neither incumbent Republican President Donald Trump nor Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden, who won Ohio, had any relevant opposition after Bernie Sanders quit the race for the Democratic nomination earlier this month.
Gov Mike DeWine, in response to the coronavirus outbreak, shutdown Ohio' s polls and thus its originally scheduled March 17 primary, an administrative action among others relative to the pandemic, including the governor's March 22 stay-at-home-order, which will be lifted in phases beginning on May 1 as he reopens Ohio.
In addition to the presidential primary and ballot issues, also on the ballot for Cuyahoga County voters to decide, among other issues and races, were congressional and state legislative seats up for grabs, common pleas and state appeals court and Ohio Supreme Court races, seats open on county council, and state central committee seats.
Democratic County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley, who ousted fellow Democrat Tim McGinty in 2016 amid controversy, faced no opposition.
The 29 percent Black county has a population of some 1.2 million people and includes Cleveland, a largely Black major American city led by four-term Black Democratic mayor Frank Jackson.
It is a Democratic stronghold.
Among those registered in Cuyahoga County are roughly 225,000 Democratic voters, 100,000 Republicans, and 500,000 non-party or Independent voters.
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