Final day to apply for mail-in absentee ballots

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) – Tuesday is the last day voters can request a mail-in absentee ballot for the General Election on November 5.

The Kentucky Office of the Secretary of State says anyone who wants a mail-in absentee ballot needs to request it through their county clerk’s office before the close of business October 29.

All mail-in absentee ballots must be received by the county clerk by 6 p.m. November 5.

To be qualified to vote by mail-in absentee ballot, a voter must be:

• Advanced in age, disabled, or ill
• Military personnel, their Dependents, or Overseas Citizens
• A student who temporarily resides outside the county
• Temporarily residing outside of Kentucky and who maintains eligibility to vote in Kentucky, such as a “snowbird”
• Incarcerated, but not yet convicted of a crime
• Prevented from voting in person at the polls on election day and from casting an in-person absentee ballot in the county clerk’s office on all days in-person absentee voting is conducted because of his or her employment location
• A participant in the Secretary of State’s Address Confidentiality Program