Absentee ballot (non-political)

Marian
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 14:11:32 +0000

Here in Maryland, there are no rules about who can get an absentee ballot. You want one, you ask for one, you get one. And as I now know, you can do the whole thing online (although you can’t vote online – you have to submit the ballot by mail or by dropping it off in person at some county office).

I remember many years ago when I was a child in Connecticut, my grandmother requested an absentee ballot once when she was recovering from knee surgery. She had to specify that her reason for needing one – in her case, illness. I didn’t know that there were states that still had rules like that. The rules seem unenforceable anyway.