In the run-up to Election Day, The Land has activated its network of Community Journalists and professional reporters to bring you news from around Cleveland and its neighborhoods. We’ve also partnered with organizations like The Associated Press, The Marshall Project, and Signal Cleveland to give you more primers and background so you can know before you hit the polls.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Ohio on Election Day
A look at statewide races, ballot measures, and details on when polls open, close and why the Buckeye State no longer serves as the nation’s bellwether.
Redrawing Ohio’s future with Issue 1
This November, Ohio voters will have the chance to decide on the future of how district maps are drawn by voting on Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment that would shift the responsibility of redrawing congressional and legislative district boundaries from politicians to citizens.
Meet the 2024 Ohio Supreme Court candidates
The guide was developed in response to residents’ questions about the judicial system and the challenges they face in finding reliable information about judges.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge guides for the 2024 election
Cuyahoga County has 34 elected Common Pleas judges who handle felony criminal cases and civil disputes. On Nov. 5, voters will select judges for six of those seats. In addition, seven candidates on the ballot have no opponent.
Hear from Cuyahoga County residents as they vote early
Get an on-the-scenes perspective from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and learn more about get-out-the-vote efforts.
Overcoming voting barriers is key to Somos Cuyahoga 2024
The Young Latino Network is helping Latines from around Cleveland understand their rights as voters and connect them to election resources.
Cleveland VOTES wants Northeast Ohioans to get time off to vote in the 2024 election
A challenge for Cleveland VOTES this year is to convince businesses to offer time off for employees to vote. The organization suggests that employers either give the day off, offer a half-day, or give employees a couple of hours to visit their polling place.
What People Behind Bars in Ohio Really Think About the ‘Prosecutor vs. Felon’ Election
In a presidential election punctuated by a major-party candidate with 34 felony convictions, The Marshall Project wanted to know what people in prison and jail thought about an election Democrats and some media cast as a contest between “a prosecutor and a convicted felon.” We also wanted to know if they would send former President Donald Trump, a Republican, to prison. (Most wouldn’t.)
Don’t count on a recount to change the winner in close elections this fall. They rarely do
With the American electorate so evenly divided, there will be elections in November close enough that officials will have to recount the votes. Just don’t expect those recounts to change the winner. They rarely do, even when the margins are tiny.
Not everything will run perfectly on Election Day. Still, US elections are remarkably reliable
On Election Day, some voting lines will likely be long and some precincts may run out of ballots. An election office website could go down temporarily and ballot-counting machines will jam. Or people who help run elections might just act like the humans they are, forgetting their key to a local polling place so it has to open later than scheduled.
These kinds of glitches have occurred throughout the history of U.S. elections. Yet election workers across America have consistently pulled off presidential elections and accurately tallied the results — and there’s no reason to believe this year will be any different.
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