What is "absentee ballots"

Usage examples of "absentee ballots".

Laura and Seth canvassed in the black section of Magnolia to explain to those who were afraid to put in an appearance at the polls that they could use absentee ballots.

In October 1960, as his soldiers were preparing to send home their absentee ballots, Walker counseled them to first consult the voting guide of the archconservative Americans for Constitutional Action.

It states that overseas absentee ballots can only be counted if they were cast and signed on or before election day, and mailed and postmarked from another country by election day.

How many of us value the electoral process so highly that we'd spend a long hot day rounding up total strangers, then haul them downtown to cast their absentee ballots?

While Gore was stupidly concentrating on getting recounts in a few counties, the Bush team was going after the holy grail--the overseas absentee ballots.

In the last election, Bush won: the election, two recounts in Florida permitted by law, a third recount not permitted by law, and a count of all Florida absentee ballots - before the U.

Actually we lost by one (1) vote, but five of our absentee ballots didn't get here in time -- primarily because they were mailed (to places like Mexico and Nepal and Guatemala) five days before the election.

Back in the old days, what with his globe-trotting and his villa in Spain and his penthouse in London, I'm sure he never cast anything except absentee ballots.

You stop paying any mind to the political news, the absentee ballots become a chore, maybe you stop voting at all.