Absentee Ballot Applications for Marion County
To absentee vote by mail, you can request an application from the Marion County Election Board or download an Application for Absentee Ballot online. Absentee ballot requests must be submitted in every election; applications are not kept on file for civilian voters. When you have completed and returned the application, a ballot will be mailed to you once they are legally available.
The deadline to submit an application to vote by mail for the November 2011 Municipal Election is midnight, Monday, October 31, 2011. Deadline to return an absentee ballot is Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Applications and ballots postmarked by their deadline but received by the Election Board after the deadline cannot be processed.
The qualifications for receiving an absentee ballot by mail are:
- I have a specific, reasonable expectation of being absent from the county on election day during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.
- I am a voter with disabilities.
- I am a voter at least 65 years of age.
- I will have official election duties outside of my voting precinct.
- I am a voter eligible to vote under the “fail-safe” procedures in IC 3-10-11 or 3-10-12.
- I am scheduled to work at my regular place of employment during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.
- I will be confined to my residence, a health care facility, or a hospital due to illness or injury during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.
- I will be caring for an individual confined to a private residence due to illness or injury during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.
- I am unable to vote at the polls in person due to observance of a religious discipline or religious holiday during the entire 12 hours the polls are open.
- I am an address confidentiality program participant in the program administered by the Indiana Attorney General under IC 5-26.5-1-6.
- I am a member of the military or public safety officer.
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