Drop boxes, overseas voters, deadlines: Answers to your questions about absentee voting
bout a third of Milwaukee voters who participated in the Aug. 13 primary election voted absentee: more than 24,500 absentee ballots were returned by voters in Milwaukee, out of nearly 76,000 ballots cast, according to unofficial results.
Voting absentee has remained popular after spiking in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. But some rules have changed around absentee ballots, including whether you can place them in a drop box or return them on behalf of a spouse or neighbor.
The Journal Sentinel collected questions about absentee voting from a handful of readers, and we added a few of our own based on topics we often see discussed online. Feel free to submit more questions, if you have them, using the form at the bottom of this story.
We asked Paulina Gutiérrez, the new executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, to answer those questions. These answers also apply to communities across the state, not just Milwaukee — the deadlines and applications for absentee ballots are same throughout Wisconsin, for example.
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