Voting Absentee

Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place on election day may request to vote an absentee ballot. A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen, who will be 18 years of age or older on election day, who has resided in the ward or municipality where he or she wishes to vote for at least 10 days before the election. If voter registration is required, the elector must also be registered.

You must make a request in writing to obtain an absentee ballot.

Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the primary or election or both. You may also request an absentee ballot by letter. Your written request must list your voting address within the municipality where you wish to vote, the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, if different, and your signature.

Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined at home or a care facility, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror. If this applies to you, contact your municipal clerk.

You can also personally go to the clerk’s office, complete a written application, and vote an absentee ballot.

The deadline for making application to vote absentee by mail is 5:00 p.m. on Friday preceding the election.

The deadline for voting an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is 5:00 p.m. on Monday preceding the election.

All voted ballots must be returned to the municipal clerk so the clerk can deliver them to the proper polling place before the polls close on election day.

Any ballots received after the polls close will not be counted.