How to Use absentee ballot in a Sentence

absentee ballot

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• The city mailed out absentee ballots for the primary June 29.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot for mail-in voting is May 7.
  — Louisville Courier-Journal, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The deadline to request an absentee ballot is three days before the election.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 5 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The deadline to return absentee ballots is Nov. 5 at 7:30pm.
  — Alexandria Sands, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• The change does not affect the deadline to submit an absentee ballot, which must occur no later than noon on election day, if it is mailed in.
  — al, 15 Aug. 2021
• Mail-in or absentee ballots must have been requested by April 16 and returned to the county Board of Elections by 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2024
• The deadline to register for an absentee ballot is Oct. 29.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Matt Friedman said the chaos that unfolded was in part due to the fact that absentee ballot counting had to be conducted in a different space.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2022
• The absentee ballot must have been postmarked by Tuesday and received no later than noon local time on May 17.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 7 May 2024
• Connecticut is one of 15 states that require an excuse to vote by absentee ballot.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2022
• The deadline for hand delivering an absentee ballot is by the close of business hours on election day.
  — al, 15 Aug. 2021
• The Senate and Assembly have passed Senate Bill 204, which would make various changes to the absentee ballot process.
  — Hope Karnopp, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2021
• Early voting starts on March 19, and absentee ballots are already rolling in.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024
• The justices ruled that only the voter can return an absentee ballot to local clerks in person.
  — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022
• The polls had opened at 6 a.m. and were scheduled to close at 8 p.m. Many voters opted to turn in an absentee ballot Monday, in advance of the storm, town moderator Jonathan Kipp said.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Duncan, however, said the Postal Service was still running in Buncombe County, and that residents with absentee ballots were being asked to mail them to her office.
  — Laura Romero, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
• Wisconsin's top Democrats have scrutinized the postmaster general over mail delays across the state, but officials say those concerns don't extend to absentee ballots in the upcoming election.
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024