Don’t Forget To Vote!

IN PERSON

• Step 1: Visit your county voter registration office or extension office.
• Step 2: Complete an application.
• Step 3. Cast your ballot. 

BY MAIL

• Step 1:  Get your application (available now).
  • Get the application online. You must be able to print your application.
  OR
  • Call or email your county voter registration office.  You will be mailed an application. A member of a voter’s immediate family or Authorized Representative can also request the application (see Authorized Representative below).
• Step 2:  Complete, sign and return the application to your county voter registration office by the Deadline.
• Step 3:  Receive your absentee ballot in the mail.
•  Step 4:Vote and return the ballot to your county voter registration office or extension office.
  • You can check the status of your absentee ballot at scVOTES.gov.

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

An Authorized Representative (Representative) is a registered voter who acts on behalf of a voter who is unable to go to the polls because of either:

• An illness or disability resulting in the voter’s confinement in a hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, or place of residence; or
• A handicap rendering the voter unable to vote at his polling place due to existing architectural barriers that deny him physical access to the polling places, voting booth, or voting apparatus or machinery.
• Candidates and paid campaign workers may not serve as a Representative except for immediate family members.
• A Representative must complete the Authorized Representative form.

A Representative may:

• Request a voter’s application. 
• Return the application through 5:00 p.m., Friday, October 30.
• The ballot will be mailed to the voter.

AUTHORIZED RETURNEE

An Authorized Returnee (Returnee) is a person who can be authorized by any voter to return the voter’s absentee by mail ballot.

• Candidates and paid campaign workers may not serve as a Returnee except for immediate family members.
• The voter and Returnee must complete the Authorization to Return Absentee Ballot form.  The Returnee must present the form when returning the ballot.