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• Georgia's new law limits dropbox locations as well as the time voters have to request an absentee ballot.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2021
• The bill also imposes strict new requirements for casting an absentee ballot that will make the process more cumbersome.
  — Erica Thomas, Time, 31 Mar. 2021
• Voters must request an absentee ballot by 5 p.m. Thursday.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2021
• There are no lines at polling places in the Middle Kingdom because there are no polling places, no absentee ballot controversies because there are no ballots.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2021
• People favored requiring a photo ID as a means to vote by absentee ballot, 53% to 28%.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Another factor is how many out-of-state students attending schools in swing states vote there vs. in their home states via absentee ballot.
  — Erica Pandey, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
• In two of those states -- Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- mail or absentee ballots cannot even begin to be processed until the morning of Election Day.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024