If you are looking at voting absentee for the November election, the United State Post Office is urging you to make sure your completed ballots get into the mail, sooner rather than waiting until the last minute. The post office is expecting millions of ballots will be mailed during the election season, and they suggest that ballots need to be mailed a week before the deadline for each state. The Board of Elections suggest that you get the envelope with your ballot hand canceled so they can see the date of the post mark. Currently the state of Ohio says that ballots will be counted if they are post marked a day before the election or November 7th.
"As long as we receive it on election day by 7:30, the close of the polls, in this office not at the polls, we will count it that day. If you put it in the mail and it's postmarked the day before the election and we receive it by the tenth day after the election, we will count it with our official count that happens," Kathy Meyer, Allen County Board of Elections Director said.
To request a voter registration form or absentee ballot you can visit their website at www.allencountyohio.com/boe.
