In the lead up to next month鈥檚 election, ideastream is answering . Lacey from Columbus asked what happens if your ballot seems to have been lost in the mail.
According to Portage County Board of Elections Deputy Director Terry Nielsen, if a voter calls into the board to report a missing ballot, the board can mark an already mailed absentee ballot as void and send a new one.
鈥淪o if the first one comes back, it shows in our records that that ballot has been soiled or canceled, so we won鈥檛 count it. It doesn鈥檛 matter who it comes back from,鈥� Nielsen said.
He recommends calling your county board of elections if a mailed ballot doesn鈥檛 arrive within 10 days of being sent out.
Boards have set up on their websites so voters can see when an absentee application is approved, when a ballot is sent and when it鈥檚 delivered.
Lacey also asked, since her ballot hasn't arrived, could she vote in person instead.
Any Ohio voter who has requested an absentee ballot can vote in person, rather than by mail.
If they do it early in person, it will be counted along with early absentee ballots. If they vote on Election Day,
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