CHARDON, Ohio — Geauga County voters are in the final stretch of early voting, with the county Board of Elections offering long hours through the weekend before polls open across the county on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3.
Early in-person voting takes place at the Geauga County Board of Elections, 12611 Ravenwood Drive, Suite 004, in Chardon, according to the board’s official early-voting schedule. The board’s office sits in the Geauga County office building, and its regular office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the extended early-voting hours listed below replacing them for the rest of this week.
Under the schedule published by the Geauga County Board of Elections and the Ohio Secretary of State, early voting runs from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28 through Friday, October 30. The final weekend follows the statewide pattern set by the Secretary of State: Saturday, October 31 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and Sunday, November 1 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Early voting ends at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 1 — there is no early voting on Monday, November 2.
Voters who requested an absentee ballot by mail are working against fixed deadlines as well. The window to apply for an absentee ballot closed at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, under the Secretary of State’s 2026 voting schedule. Voted non-UOCAVA absentee ballots must be received by the Board of Elections by 7:30 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, to be counted, while ballots from uniformed and overseas voters may be received by mail through November 7.
The Geauga County Board of Elections is directed by Tyler Plants, and the board can be reached at (440) 279-2030. The board’s voter lookup, run through the state’s lookup.boe.ohio.gov system, was last updated late on October 28, and voters can use it to confirm their registration and their Election Day precinct polling place before they go.
Early voters must bring an accepted photo ID under Ohio law, unless the voter has a religious objection to being photographed and completes the attestation form prescribed by the Secretary of State. Voters who cannot make the early-voting hours will vote at their assigned precinct polling places on Election Day.
Neither the Geauga County Board of Elections nor the Ohio Secretary of State has published a county early-turnout total for Geauga County in the sources reviewed for this story, so no turnout figure is reported here.
What happens next is the final weekend of early voting at Ravenwood Drive — 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sunday — followed by Election Day on Tuesday, November 3, when Geauga County polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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