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Voting by Mail

You may return your voted vote-by-mail ballot by:

  1. Mailing it to your county elections office;
  2. Returning it in person to any polling place or elections office within your county on Election Day; or
  3. Authorizing a legally allowable third party (spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, or a person residing in the same household as you) to return the ballot on your behalf to any polling place or elections office within your county on Election Day.

In any case, your vote-by-mail ballot must be received by the time polls close at 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. Late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots cannot be counted.

All valid vote-by-mail ballots are counted and included in the official election results. Elections officials have 28 days to complete this process, referred to as the "official canvass," and must report the results to the Secretary of State 31 days after the date of the election.