Portage County shipped 30,000 absentee ballots this week. We spoke with some who voted in person.

Lorene McMahon and Rodney Fleshman prepare to vote after confirming their identities to a polling station worker inside the Portage County Board of Elections on Tuesday. Michael Indriolo/The Portager

Portage County shipped 30,000 absentee ballots this week. We spoke with some who voted in person.

- Michael Indriolo

The Portage County Democrats and Republicans took up posts near the polls Tuesday for Ohio’s first day of early voting, but one group stuck out for its lack of political affiliation: Open United Recovery Place, a support group for those recovering from and impacted by addiction.

Open United Recovery Place members across the political spectrum joined the line of voters stretching around the Portage County Board of Elections headquarters in Ravenna, waiting to cast their in-person absentee ballots.

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