In deep blue parts of Cuyahoga County, Ohio's one of the most critical regions, Democrats are not as excited about Clinton as they had been about Barack Obama four years back.

Democrats rquested for early ballots in the county which have plummeted 35%, compared to that of  2012, while the requests from Republican have risen upto3%.

The increased interest of Republican was somehow surprising when it was put into local context that  there were 20 Cuyahoga County precincts while not even one vote had been cast for Mitt Romney in 2012, and there had been 16 precincts in the county where zero ballots had been cast for John McCain in 2008.

Edward Horowitz, associate professor of Political Communication  in Cleveland State University told,  "It wouldn't be surprising there would be some [precincts] where Donald Trump doesn't get any votes. However, it does play into the narrative that his campaign has been using, which is: the campaign is going to be rigged,"

Trump supporters will not even be allowed to see whether their side has been shut out in certain places due to voter fraud.

This is because election officials have warned  that any self-appointed election monitors  if caught interfering with voters in the county will face tough consequences.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Director Pat McDonald said that he has been contacted by  few Trump supporters either saying to be the election monitors or advising that the campaign has ordered them to serve in that capacity.

By Prakriti Neogi