NOUN
- (election) a ballot that is cast while absent (usually mailed in prior to election day)
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- You can also get an absentee ballot within three days if your application is received before Oct. 28.
- Her family helped her to obtain an absentee ballot. Times, Sunday Times
- Although the three are excited by the progress they've made, they remain intimidated by complicated state laws regarding absentee ballots. The Netflix For Voting? New Website Makes It Easier To Vote From Home
- I'm not blogging today but this deserves a mention: King County Elections staff said about 100 bags -- containing up to 20,000 absentee ballots that had been dropped off at polling sites on Election Day -- remain uncounted because of an array of problems caused by the bags 'being overstuffed. Sound Politics: "Ballot-bag problems may slow counting of 8th District votes"
- You can also get an absentee ballot within three days if your application is received before Oct. 28.
- I urge any American living outside the country to get an early start checking his/her registration and receiving an absentee ballot, because it can take a while.
- The state is reporting that more than 500,000 people have cast their votes via absentee ballots.
- Some parts of the Florida statute require postmarking on certain absentee ballots. CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Challenge to Absentee Ballots in Seminole County - December 7, 2000
- Blackwell ruled that persons who had requested, but not received their absentee ballots, would not be permitted to cast a provisional ballot.
- The Republican Party had this lawsuit in place when they were fighting the-what we call the overlap voting, which is when absentee voting started, before the close of voter registration, which allowed people to go to an early voting site, register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and vote it on the spot. Democracy Now!