How to Use absentee ballot in a Sentence

absentee ballot

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  • One rule authorizes absentee ballot drop boxes in each county.
    — Kate Brumback, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Palmer complained that certain Detroit precincts were out of balance, meaning that absentee ballot books did not match the number of ballots cast.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The majority of the roughly 5.5 million votes cast in the general election came via absentee ballot.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Larson, 56, had requested an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 election back in March.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2020
  • This team had some wins in court against Democrats in a flurry of lawsuits in the months leading up to the election, on issues ranging from absentee ballot deadlines to signature-matching rules.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • For example, a state election worker might find the signature on an absentee ballot doesn't match the one the election office has on file.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Curran also did not respond to questions about the size of the adjustment to Brady Township numbers after the re-tabulation of absentee ballots there or why the ballots were not accurately tabulated and/or reported the first time.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024

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