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Lots of people have asked me this: I requested a mail-in absentee ballot, but I ran out of time to return it. Can I still vote?
YES!
Here's what you can do:
YES!
Here's what you can do:
You can drive to your county Election Board before it closes tonight and drop your absentee ballot off.
If you won't be able to do that today...
If you won't be able to do that today...
1. Destroy your absentee ballot (do NOT put it in the mail. Just destroy it, throw it out, whatever)
2. Go to your usual polling place tomorrow
3. The poll workers will see in their records that you requested a mail-in absentee ballot.
2. Go to your usual polling place tomorrow
3. The poll workers will see in their records that you requested a mail-in absentee ballot.
4. They'll ask if you returned that ballot.
5. Assuming you didn't, they'll ask you to sign saying you didn't return the ballot and that you're not going to return the ballot.
6. Then you will be able to vote in-person as usual!
5. Assuming you didn't, they'll ask you to sign saying you didn't return the ballot and that you're not going to return the ballot.
6. Then you will be able to vote in-person as usual!
I cannot be clearer about this:
DO NOT try to do both. DO NOT mail your absentee ballot and then also try to go vote in-person "just in case" or whatever. Apparently this is fine in some states -- NOT Oklahoma.
DO NOT try to do both. DO NOT mail your absentee ballot and then also try to go vote in-person "just in case" or whatever. Apparently this is fine in some states -- NOT Oklahoma.
Let's say, hypothetically, a person voted by mail and then went in-person and lied to the poll workers (or forgot) and ALSO voted in-person.
This! Is! A! Felony!
This! Is! A! Felony!
