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Recent Examples of absentee ballot
Nearly a year after Wausau Mayor Doug Diny's removal of the city's sole absentee ballot drop box located outside of city hall, investigations into the drop box, its removal and return continue.
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
During the 2024 election cycle, OK Votes helped around 9% of the student body register to vote or request an absentee ballot.
—Jhanvi Patel, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Delivery of Social Security notices and checks, Medicaid information, prescription medications, and absentee ballot applications are disrupted day in day out.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
The order also directs states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls and prohibits states from counting mail and absentee ballots that have been postmarked by Election Day, but received afterward.
—Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
During the 2024 election cycle, OK Votes helped around 9% of the student body register to vote or request an absentee ballot.
—Jhanvi Patel, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Delivery of Social Security notices and checks, Medicaid information, prescription medications, and absentee ballot applications are disrupted day in day out.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
The order also directs states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls and prohibits states from counting mail and absentee ballots that have been postmarked by Election Day, but received afterward.
—Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for absentee ballot
short ballot
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In a strange reversal of a longstanding trend with the Academy, this year’s documentary short ballot is almost entirely domestic (which is to say, films made by or about Americans), while the feature doc category — where subtitles aren’t so common — is entirely international.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2024
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About half a dozen poll workers said this election has been particularly slow, likely because of the short ballot and bad weather.—
Jolene Almendarez,
The Enquirer,
16 May 2023
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“Absentee ballot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absentee%20ballot. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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