Ballots for each election the voter is eligible to vote in will be mailed to them automatically. The deadline to request an absentee ballot to be mailed for the Presidential Preference Primary Election is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9.
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Following postmark issues that came to light in November, the secretary of state contacted the U.S. Postal Service to discuss the problem.
Absentee voting is underway for the 2016 Presidential Preference Primaries. Some communities will have additional special local election items on the ballot.
Early voting begins February 16.
Voters even have the ability to track their absentee ballots using the “voter tool” on the Oklahoma State Election Board’s website. When voters request an absentee ballot or arrive at the polls and fill out their application to vote, they must indicate in which party’s primary they wish to vote.
While ballots could be hitting mailboxes in the next few weeks, elections supervisors are also making a push to remind voters that Florida is a closed primary state.
Moe said residents who have either moved or changed their name that they will need to re-register before they will be allowed to vote. Or, voters can vote in person on March 22 by visiting their designated polling place, or, if in a county with vote centers, at any vote center within that county.
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Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D-Kent) added in a statement that Husted’s directive was an improvement, “but there will still be unequal treatment of ballots and many ballots will go uncounted if they don’t have one of those three marks”. You have now viewed your allowance of free articles.
