Some experts expect Obama to win the presidential election because he remains ahead of Romney in most polls in Ohio.
== Impact of Early Voting ==
President Obama became the first president to case his vote in presidential election before Election Day, by voting on October 25. All prior presidents voted on the official election day, which is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Many States now allow "early voting," and some allow it more than others. In the mid-term elections in 2010, 25% of the voters in Ohio voted early -- days or weeks prior to election day. The Ohio legislature then passed a law to prohibit early voting on the weekend before the election. But Democrats, realizing how they can use early voting to their advantage by rounding up people and taking them to the polling booths over a period of many days, including the weekend before the election, sued in federal court to have the law invalidated. The lawsuit succeeded: the federal court invalidated the Ohio law stopping early voting the weekend prior to the election in Ohio, and the decision was affirmed on appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court then declined the petition for it to review the issue. As a result, early voting in Ohio may be as much as 50% of its total vote this time.
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