absentee ballot
noun
: a ballot submitted (as by mail) in advance of an election by a voter who is unable to be present at the polls
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North Carolina was set to send out ballots on Friday and would have been the first state to start mailing out absentee ballots, kicking off the early voting process.
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Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2024
The deadline for indefinitely confined, military and hospitalized voters to make an absentee ballot request is slightly longer.
—Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
In the 1980s, California became the first state to allow eligible voters to request absentee ballots for any reason.
—Simmone Shah, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Voting will begin soon in some of those states as absentee ballots begin to go out in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this month.
—Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2024
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Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2024
The deadline for indefinitely confined, military and hospitalized voters to make an absentee ballot request is slightly longer.
—Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
In the 1980s, California became the first state to allow eligible voters to request absentee ballots for any reason.
—Simmone Shah, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Voting will begin soon in some of those states as absentee ballots begin to go out in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this month.
—Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2024
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