More About Absentee Voting and Early In Person Voting

Absentee Voting Reasons  
Absentee Voting Methods and Early Voting In Person Methods

Who conducts absentee voting?

For statewide and county elections, new legislation has moved absentee voting to the county clerk's office.  

For municipal elections, the municipal recorder conducts absentee voting. 

The law sets many of the same requirements for setting up the place for in-person absentee voting as it does for a regular polling place.  These are the requirements:

• A sufficient number of voting booths or devices must be available.
• Booths or devices must be in an area separate from but within clear view of the public entrance area to the absentee clerk's office or other area designated for absentee voting.;
• Booths or devices must be arranged to provide voter with complete privacy;
• The location shall not allow interference with the voter;
• Ballots, voted and unvoted, are to be secured at all times;
• The location must be accessible to voters with physical disabilities;
• No electioneering is allowed on property of county courthouse or any annex facilities during the period of regular in-person absentee voting (20 days to 3 days before election).