NORWALK, Ohio — Huron County voters are in the final days of early voting for the November 3 general election, with the Huron County Board of Elections at 180 Milan Avenue, Suite 4, in Norwalk open through Sunday for anyone who wants to cast a ballot before Election Day. Early in-person voting ends Sunday, November 1, and there is no early voting on Monday, November 2.
Under the statewide schedule published by the Ohio Secretary of State, early voting hours for the final weekend are 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 31, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 1. The Huron County Board of Elections can be reached at 419-668-8238, and voters can check their registration, precinct and sample ballot through the board’s lookup tools before they go.
The deadline to request an absentee ballot by mail passed on Tuesday, October 27, at 8:30 p.m. Voters who already hold a mail ballot face a harder deadline than in past cycles: under Senate Bill 293, signed into law in December 2025, absentee ballots must be received by the board of elections by the close of polls on Election Day to be counted, and there is no longer a four-day grace period after Election Day, according to The Columbus Dispatch. Secretary of State Frank LaRose said on October 27 that it might already be too late to drop ballots in the mail and have them arrive by the deadline, according to Cleveland.com as reported by The Columbus Dispatch — so Huron County voters are advised to return ballots in person to the board office in Norwalk instead of mailing them.
What is on the ballot depends on where in the county a voter lives. The official Huron County sample ballot for Norwalk’s Precinct 1-A, produced by the Huron County Board of Elections, shows the statewide races — including Governor, Attorney General, Auditor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and the Ohio Supreme Court — alongside State Representative, judgeships for the Sixth District Court of Appeals, and statewide Issue 3, the proposed constitutional amendment to require voters to present photo identification in order to vote.
The same Norwalk sample ballot carries local questions, including a renewal tax levy for the City of Norwalk for fire apparatus, buildings and firefighting services, a renewal levy for the Huron County General Health District, and a proposed amendment to the Norwalk city charter, according to the official sample ballot. Elsewhere in the county, voters in the Firelands EMS Ambulance Service District — covering New London Village, New London Township and Fitchville Township in Huron County — decide a levy renewal, according to information provided by Firelands EMS. Countywide, voters also elect a county commissioner; the candidates for that office debated on October 20 at Norwalk High School’s Ernsthausen Performing Arts Center in a debate hosted by the Sandusky Register and the Norwalk Reflector and sponsored by the Greater Sandusky Partnership.
On Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, polls across Huron County are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and voters must vote at their designated precinct polling place. Absentee ballots returned in person must reach the board of elections by 7:30 p.m. that night to be counted. Results will begin posting after polls close, and the board will certify the county’s results in the days that follow.
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