A busy, lawsuit-filled early voting period ended Monday, with state election officials estimating that Ohio set a record for pre-Election Day turnout.

More than 87 percent of the 1.3 million absentee ballots mailed to Ohio voters during the absentee voting period have been returned, and that surpasses the absentee voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said Monday.

His office released the final round of absentee voting data for Ohio ahead of today's presidential election. The data was based on an informal survey of Ohio's 88 boards of elections.

As of Monday, nearly 1.8 million Ohioans had already cast their ballots. Of the more than 1.3 million absentee ballots mailed to voters during the absentee voting period, more than 1.1 million have been returned '" that's a rate of 87.1 percent. Additionally, more than 592,000 voters cast their ballots in person at their board of elections or designated vote center, Husted said.
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