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| Absentee Voting |
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Can't make it to the polls on election day? You may be eligible to vote using an absentee ballot.
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Any qualified elector in the following categories is eligible to receive absentee ballots:
- Students, their spouses and dependents residing with them (The term "students" will mean all persons residing outside
the counties of their respective residences, enrolled in an institution of learning.)
- Members of the Armed forces and Merchant Marines, their spouses and dependents residing with them.
- Persons serving with the American Red Cross or with the United Service Organizations (USO) who are attached to and sewing
with the Armed Forces of the United States, their spouses and dependents residing with them.
- Employment. (The term employment' means those persons who by virtue of their employment obligations will be absent from
their county of residence on election day during the hours the polls are open and will be unable to vote in person, or those
persons who are required by their employment obligations to be at their place of employment in their county of residence during
the entire hours that the polls are open (7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.) and will be unable to vote in person, and who present written
certification of such obligations, signed by their employer, to the county board of registration.)
- Physically disabled persons. (The term "physically disabled persons" will mean a person who, because of injury or illness cannot
be present in person at his polling place on election day, whether physically present inside or outside his county of residence)
- Government employees, their spouses and dependents residing with them, who are out of their county of residence on election day.
- Electors with a death or funeral in the family within a three day period prior to the election.
- Persons on vacation (who because of vacation plans will be absent from a county of residence on election day).
- Poll managers, county voter registration board members and staff, and county election commission members and staff working on election day.
- Overseas citizens.
- Persons attending sick or physically disabled persons.
- Persons admitted to hospitals as emergency patients on the day of election or within a four-day period before the election.
- Persons who will be serving as jurors in a state or federal court on election day.
- Persons 65 years of age or older.
- Persons confined to a jail or pre-trial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial.
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Time of Application
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Any elector wishing to vote by absentee ballot must apply to the voters' registration board in his
county of residence. They may submit applications for absentee ballots anytime during the calendar
year in which they are holding the election in which the elector wishes to vote by absentee ballot.
The registration board must receive completed applications returned by mail by 5:00 p.m., four days
before the election. However, any elector applying in person may apply until 5:00 p.m. on the day before the election.
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If you are registered to vote and you meet one of the above listed qualifications, visit or contact
your county board of voter registration, either by phone or mail, and ask for an application to vote
absentee. The application can be completed in the office or mailed to you, once the application is
completed and returned, you will be provided with a ballot for the upcoming election you have requested.
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S C. Code of Laws required all applications for absentee ballots be numbered sequentially and recorded prior
to mailing, therefore, the application is not available through the Internet.
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