In Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), the Mayor/County Executive insisted that absentee ballot applications be mailed to all Cleveland City registered voters, which was legislatively prohibited by the state, but was upheld by lower court judges for the county "rules".
So Husted made that the "rule" across the state (I think?), and also made the rule that all counties/cities/municipalities have the same early voting opportunities, regardless of whether they were needed.
In the interests of "equal voting access", of course, and rightly so.
Needless to say, all this mailing of absentee ballot applications caused considerable expense. And the extended early voting hours state-wide causes considerable hardship for smaller precincts who don't need them, want them, or have the personnel to keep these polling places open for a month of evenings and week-ends.
Nevertheless, they will comply, so Ohio has more early voting opportunities statewide than 47 other states. Early in-person voting, even under the SCOTUS stay, begins next Tuesday, October 7.
So, why are the lib's whining about only having four weeks instead of five to "get out the vote"? I finally figured this out!
The deadline to register to vote is next MONDAY...and if voting is permitted that one week earlier, "newly found" voters can be registered AND cast their votes at the same time.
I guess the "anti-vote-suppression" activists whining about voter disenfranchisement are not quite worried about it enough to have a "get out the registrations" drive and also go back later for the actual voting drive. Go figure!
I think you DID figure it out!