Beginning Monday, you will be able to apply for absentee ballots online. Though the application is currently unavailable, it will be ready on Monday and can be found here.
While this adds some convenience for those unable to make it to the polls, there's still a very tight and inflexible deadline for absentee ballots. Under current law, they must be received by the county elections office no later than the Friday before the election. If they come in later, they are ignored.
Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a bill that expanded absentee ballot deadlines and even provided badly needed money for the new voting machines, but Governor Tom Wolf vetoed it because it also eliminated straight-party voting.
In the House, only four Democrats supported this measure, none of them from the Lehigh Valley. In the Senate, Lisa Boscola was one of three Democrats to vote yes.
4 comments:
They're requiring proof of ID, via state ID or drivers license? Won't fraudsters be disenfranchised?
state ID or driver license number will be required.
cutting down on graveyard hunting unless you get a list of license numbers and names and use your web site to send the ballot. Always a way around internet security
Will I only have to wear my tinfoil cap, mirror front glasses and chrome hearing aids to apply?
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