{"id":158,"date":"2012-11-05T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T09:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2012\/11\/05\/absentee-ballots-and-absentee-ballot-applications-are-available-at-the-town-clerks-office\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T23:22:26","slug":"absentee-ballots-and-absentee-ballot-applications-are-available-at-the-town-clerks-office","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2012\/11\/05\/absentee-ballots-and-absentee-ballot-applications-are-available-at-the-town-clerks-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Absentee Ballots and Absentee Ballot Applications are available at the Town Clerk&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Absentee Ballot Applications are available at the Town Clerk&#8217;s office<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voters&nbsp;may&nbsp;click on the link below to print out an Absentee Ballot Application or come into the Town Clerk&#8217;s office at the&nbsp;Town Hall, 322 Concord Rd, 9:00 AM until&nbsp;5:00 PM,&nbsp;to fill out an application.&nbsp; For further information call (978) 639-3351.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><strong>&nbsp;Absentee Ballot Application Deadline is&nbsp;12 Noon&nbsp;on Monday,&nbsp;November&nbsp;5, 2012.<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-size: large;\">The Absentee Ballot&nbsp;Application is for use by:<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><strong><u>A registered voter<\/u><\/strong> who will be unable to vote at the polls on election day due to: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 2;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\">absence from your city or town during normal polling hours; or <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 2;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\">physical disability preventing you from going to the polling place; or <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 2;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: Garamond BookCondensed,Garamond BookCondensed; font-size: small;\">religious belief; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">OR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A <strong><u>non-registered voter<\/u><\/strong> who is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 2;\">a Massachusetts citizen absent from the state; or <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 2;\">an active member of the armed forces or merchant marines, their spouse or dependent; or <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 2;\">a person confined in a correctional facility or a jail, except if by reason of felony conviction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Click Here for the<\/strong> <a href=\"\/documents\/download.asp?id=3799\">Absentee Ballot Application<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>or the<\/strong> <a href=\"\/documents\/download.asp?id=3800\">Absentee Ballot Application by a Family Member<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All absentee ballots returned by mail&nbsp;or hand delivered to the Town Clerk&#8217;s office must be received before the polls close on Election Day. Ballots&nbsp;may be&nbsp;returned to the Town Clerk&#8217;s office only. <u><strong>They&nbsp;cannot be accepted at the polling locations on Election Day.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong>&nbsp;Absentee ballots that&nbsp;are mailed to the voter can either be mailed back to the city or town clerk or hand-delivered to city or town hall by the voter or a family member. G. L. c. 54, \u00a7 92. A family member is defined in General Laws chapter 50 section 1 as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\">a spouse or any person living in the same household with the voter (even if they are not related); OR<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal;\">in-laws, father, mother, sister or brother of the whole or half blood, son, daughter, adopting parent or adopted child, stepparent or stepchild, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, grandparent or grandchild.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/?p=162\">Voter Registration and Specimen Ballot Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot for the State Election is NOON on Monday, November 5, 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2012\/11\/05\/absentee-ballots-and-absentee-ballot-applications-are-available-at-the-town-clerks-office\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Absentee Ballots and Absentee Ballot Applications are available at the Town Clerk&#8217;s Office\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}