They need to get started on this so that they can deliver the ballots to likely HRC voters in a timely manner. Likely DJT and military ballots might suffer mail delays.
Absentee voters in Ohio tend to lean strongly Republican. Military ballots were available by e-mail request starting a couple of months ago. Combined with our requirement to show ID before voting, we live up to what Secretary of State Husted always promises: "We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat."
Do military votes still get counted? I seem to recall last election there was something about them only being counted in case of a recount.