Exercise your right to vote

There are only a few more days left to show off your voting sticker, Columbus.

Haven’t found the time to get your vote in? Don’t stress. The Franklin County Board of Elections has announced hours for its early-voting location at 1700 Morse Rd., and it includes weekend times and will accept mail-in ballots 24 hours a day at two drop boxes at its Morse Road location. Through Election Day on Tuesday, early voting may be done:

Today through 7 p.m.Saturday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m.
Monday: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you plan to cast your vote in-person, be sure to give yourself time as the wait times have been between 45 minutes to an hour.

Also, be sure to give yourself time to get educated and read up on the multi-million dollar issues and the people running for decision-making positions, and then cast your well-informed vote like the rockstar you are.

Here is the full list of candidates running for City Council and the Board of Education (and some of their emails and phone numbers if you’ve got any hard-hitting inquiries or just want to say hi).

Visit the Franklin County Board of Elections for the full list of issues.

The board of elections released numbers this week showing that more than 244,000 residents have cast their ballots, whether through in-person voting or mail-in absentee ballots.

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