Absentee Voting

A registered voter may request an absentee ballot by telephone, mail, email, fax, or in person, to be mailed to or picked up by the voter. 

You may designate in writing a member of your immediate family to pick up a ballot for you, no earlier than four days before an election by providing required information. You can also have someone else return your ballot.  The designee for pick-up must provide identification. Candidates may not pick up or return ballots for anyone except members of his/her immediate family.

Absentee ballots must be returned to either one of our two offices by 7 p.m. Central Time on election day in order to be counted. However, if you are overseas and voting in a presidential primary or general election, your ballot must be dated or postmarked by the date of the election and we must receive it within 10 days of the election for it to be counted.

A single request for an absentee ballot by any voter (not just overseas voters) is now good for all elections for two general election cycles. For example, any request for ballots in the 2008 elections is good through November 2010.