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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last year, clerks were stressed and overworked, trying to keep up with the huge influx of absentee ballot requests for every election.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Markos, the owner of Brothers Deli in Lynn, was visiting his home country of Greece during the election and did not cast an absentee ballot.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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 claims echo falsehoods about the 2020 election, which included the same criticisms of Milwaukee’s early morning absentee ballot influxes.
    — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2024

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