If you cast a paper absentee ballot in Virginia and die before Election Day, your vote is supposed to die with you. But if you drive to your local registrar's office and record your absentee vote electronically, election officials have no paper trail and can't rescind it. Your vote will count, even if you don't make it home alive after casting it.
OXFORD - Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann Thursday questioned the high number of absentee votes, mostly in the Democratic-dominated Delta region, that were cast Aug. 3 in the state's primary election. The highest percentage of absentee votes, more than 29 percent, was reported in Quitman County, compared to just 2 percent in Jackson County.
By LINDA HALL Staff Writer
A proposal to allow members of the military and other Pennsylvanians overseas to vote by computer or fax has backers on both sides of the aisle, despite questions about whether it is constitutional. The bill sponsored by state Rep. Jim Marshall would allow election officials to send absentee ballots to voters -- and for voters to return them -- by e-mail or fax.
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The state Supreme Court declined to hear a National Guardsman's appeal of a judge's decision to throw out his vote in last year's Bellevue Council election. Walter Daughenbaugh, an Afghanistan War veteran, voted by absentee ballot because he was traveling around the country training National Guard special forces units in November 2009. An election judge lost his ballot in her car.
The deadlines are approaching for Virginians planning to vote by absentee ballot. The State Board of Elections says the deadline to apply to vote by absentee ballot for the Nov. 2 election is Oct. 26 by mail. Virginians looking to vote by absentee ballot in person can apply and vote by Oct. 30.
SACRAMENTO - Presidential hopefuls might want to heed the findings of a new statewide poll on California's absentee voters. The California Field poll shows that almost half of all California ballots are cast days and even weeks before Election Day - and it's a trend that's growing, with more than a quarter of voters registered as permanent absentee voters.
WASHINGTON -- March 4 is a little less than a month away, but voters who have already made up their mind can start weighing in today. That's when Ohioans can begin absentee and early voting for the primary election.
Virginia's gubernatorial candidates have been actively courting absentee voters - a crucial bloc that represented more than half the margin of victory when Republican Robert F. McDonnell defeated Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the 2005 attorney general's race. As of Oct. 9, 46,246 people had voted early or requested absentee ballots - a figure elections officials say is roughly comparable to figures from the last gubernatorial election in 2005.
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