Voters started lining up while it was still dark on Tuesday morning at the Medina County Board of Elections on first day of early voting in Ohio, a state that looms large in the nationwide campaigns between Republicans and Democrats battling for ​control of the US Congress.

If this biennial midterm election is similar to years past, voter turnout will be lower than in the presidential elections every four years.

But at least in Medina County in northeast Ohio, residents queuing ‌at 7:15 a.m. (1115 GMT) were taking seriously their right to vote at a time when one US Senate race and two for the US House of Representatives in the state are seen as "toss-ups," according to the Cook Political Report.

Registered Republicans, Democrats and independents interviewed by Reuters all shared similar frustrations: they are exhausted by political ads they see as deceptive and mean, they hate the US war with Iran and they really hate the inflation that has become chronic.
Nobody said they expected things to improved any time soon.

Third in the line that awaited the 8 a.m. opening of the polling center was Eddie ​St. John, 83, who retired years ago from a career working "offshore" in Louisiana, and who lives in Wadsworth, Ohio, population around 24,700.

Asked what he most wanted to see fixed as a result of the election, which ends on November ​3, St. John said, "Mostly its our economy. It sucks."

"You can't afford nothing anymore. Everything's so high. Gas is getting worse all the time," he said, adding, "This guy in office now he ⁠promises this. He promises that... (but) nothing's coming down."

"This guy," St. John said, is President Donald Trump, who isn't on the ballot. He stressed, however, that he lays blame less on political parties than "the person that's in office."

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