absentee votes
Ballots from afar
Absentee votes are ballots cast by voters who cannot be present at their polling place on election day.
Reasons include travel, illness, military deployment, or living abroad.
The voter typically requests a ballot in advance, marks it, and returns it by mail or designated drop-off: She submitted her absentee vote two weeks before the election.
- electionOrganized public voting
- ballotVoting document
- ballot boxContainer for cast votes
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- postal regulationsRules governing mail services
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