Absentee ballot requests down for Democrats in Ohio for 2012 election, perhaps because ACORN was permanently banned from Ohio in 2010 as part of a racketeering settlement

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9/27/12, "Tracking Ohio’s absentee ballot requests." RedState.com, Moe Lane

"We[**] got a guy out there doing just that, and the link to his spreadsheet is here.
Executive summary: the process is ongoing, and what’s being tracked are absentee/early ballot REQUESTS, not turned-in ballots.  So it’s not telling us who’s ahead in Ohio; it’s merely telling us what we know of which party’s members are asking for ballots.  In other words, it’s a possible measure of voter enthusiasm in Ohio.  So…"...

 List of counties at link, just a few counties in so this is very early reporting.

In 2008, Democrats had double the number of absentee ballots. In 2012, it looks like Democrat enthusiasm is way down, and Republican is inching up.

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ACORN banned from Ohio:

7/29/2011, "Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud," Daily Caller, Matthew Vadum
 "And ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy last November, was itself convicted of voter fraud in Nevada in April. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. ACORN was also banished from Ohio in 2010 when it settled a state racketeering filed against it by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a project of the Buckeye Institute. Under the settlement ACORN, which is now reorganizing its state chapters under different names, agreed never to return to the state."
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