How to Use absentee ballot in a Sentence

absentee ballot

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• But the count could take days, thanks to the huge surge in absentee ballot requests.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2020
• The city mailed out absentee ballots for the primary June 29.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
• There are also many places to cast an absentee ballot in person across the state.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2020
• To learn more about how to request and submit and absentee ballot, here's aguide.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
• The 2020 cycle saw the first statewide elections in which every voter had a right to cast an absentee ballot.
  — Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2023
• The court also said that only the voter can return the absentee ballot.
  — Scott Bauer, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• In those cases, the absentee ballot is discarded, a process that takes time to sort through, Myrie said.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot for mail-in voting is May 7.
  — Louisville Courier-Journal, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2024
• The man had gotten his absentee ballot, but didn’t know where to deliver it.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• In addition to those items, the GOP bills would ban drive-through and 24-hour voting and absentee ballot drop off boxes.
  — Dallas News, 9 July 2021
• But the 2020 election was the first with drop boxes for absentee ballots in every county.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
• Hoosiers can check the status of their absentee ballot by using the voter portal at IndianaVoters.in.gov.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2020
• The voter would have to apply for the emergency absentee ballot by the close of business on Monday.
  — Mike Cason, al, 30 Oct. 2020
• But that message did not mean the voter who was issued an absentee ballot was trying to vote.
  — Stefan Becket, Kathryn Watson, Caroline Linton, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022
• Voters in New York can vote by absentee ballot or in person.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2022
• The measure calls for making permanent the use of the absentee ballot boxes that were bolted to the ground outside town halls for the 2020 elections.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• State law says absentee ballots must be returned by mail or in person.
  — Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• That's due in part to more than 2 million people casting their votes via absentee ballot.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2022
• They will also be required to announce a tally of all absentee ballots by the close of business on the third day after the election.
  — Lucille Sherman, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
• Each board of elections offers ways to track your absentee ballot.
  — Jackie Borchardt, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2020
• The deadline to request an absentee ballot is three days before the election.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 5 Apr. 2022
• New York is also one of a few states where the last vote counts, meaning that voters can mail in an absentee ballot and later choose to vote in person.
  — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Ohio last year shortened the deadline to return absentee ballots from 10 days after the election to four.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
• The other was an absentee ballot submitted by a 92-year-old, who then died four days before the election.
  — Star Tribune, 7 July 2021
• Alaska has the slowest absentee ballot counting process in the country.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The researchers also sought to study whether there were periods of time that more absentee ballots flooded the system.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• In that case, court records show, a city clerk in the town of Cedarburg called the police after her staff tried to process an absentee ballot that had been cast in the name of a woman who had died in July.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2020
• Your other absentee ballot option is to turn in the ballot in person.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 28 Oct. 2020
• Texas has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the United States, including strict voter ID laws, stringent limits on mail-in and absentee ballots and no online voter registration.
  — Katie Scofield, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
• That margin was extended to 61 votes after the county canvass, which included a re-tabulation of absentee ballots in Battle Creek.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024