More than 1 million absentee ballots requested in Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State election officials say more than a million absentee ballots have been requested ahead of the Nov. 6 general election.The Ohio Secretary of State's Office says an estimated 1,053,697 absentee ballots had been requested and 332,663 had been cast statewide as of Oct. 19. The office said Tuesday that at that same point in 2014, a total of nearly 810,000 absentee ballots had been requested by Ohio voters and more than 272,000 ballots had been cast.Officials say this