We started absentee voting today.  As I noted in the post about Military and Overseas ballots, it’s a great testament to the work of our staff that absentee voting has started.  It’s not easy dealing with the compressed schedule of candidate certifications and voting deadlines.  But our staff handled it as well as anyone in the state.

If you want to vote absentee through the mail we are now offering a new method of doing that.  In the past, we would have required two mailings from our office.  One would be an application which, upon return of the application, would be followed by the mailing of the ballot itself.  We’ve reduced that to a single mailing of both application and ballot for those voters who have confirmed their identity on line or in a phone call to us by providing us with their birthdate and either their Driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number.

The signatures on all absentee ballots are authenticated by election judges upon receipt in our office as a final step to verify their identity.

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