{"id":641,"date":"2014-11-10T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/?p=641"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:54:31","slug":"absentee-ballot-applications-for-the-state-election","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2014\/11\/10\/absentee-ballot-applications-for-the-state-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Town Meeting and Special Town Election Voter Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absentee Ballot Applications are available at the Town Clerk&#8217;s office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voters may click on the link below to print out an Absentee Ballot Application or come into the Town Clerk&#8217;s office at the Town Hall, 322 Concord Road, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM and Tuesday from 7:30 AM until 6:00 PM., to fill out an application. For further information call (978) 639-3351. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><strong> Absentee Ballot Application Deadline is 12 NOON on Monday, September 8, 2014.<\/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 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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A registered voter<\/span><\/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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">non-registered voter<\/span><\/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=\"http:\/\/10.88.254.11\/documents\/download.asp?id=3799\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Absentee Ballot Application<\/span><\/span><\/a> <strong>or the<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/10.88.254.11\/documents\/download.asp?id=3800\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Absentee Ballot Application by a Family Member<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All absentee ballots returned by mail or hand delivered to the Town Clerk&#8217;s office must be received before the polls close on Election Day. Ballots may be returned to the Town Clerk&#8217;s office only. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>They cannot be accepted at the polling locations on Election Day.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong> Absentee ballots that are mailed to the voter can either be mailed back to the town clerk or hand-delivered to town hall by the voter or a family member. G. L. c. 54, \u252c\u00ba 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>Click here for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/?p=601\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Specimen Ballots and Voter Registration Information<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voter registration deadline for the December 9, 2014, Special Town Election is Wednesday, November 19, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The voter registration deadline for the December 3, 2014, Special Town Meeting is Friday, November 21, 2014.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/2014\/11\/10\/absentee-ballot-applications-for-the-state-election\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Special Town Meeting and Special Town Election Voter Registration\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":508,"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\/641"}],"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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}