How Ohio counts voter's ballots on Election Day

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Voters in Ohio will likely know the projected winners of key statewide races before the end of Election Day on Tuesday.

While some neighboring states do not allow election officials to process absentee votes before Election Day, county boards of elections in Ohio are permitted to begin readying early and absentee ballots to be counted before Tuesday.

Those boards of elections could have begun that process on Oct. 8, the day early in-person voting began in Ohio.