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The Legislature also spent $1.18 million on a case over absentee ballot deadlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 17 July 2025
Another change in election laws will affect some voters who want to cast absentee ballots, Price said.
—Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025
The Butler County Board of Elections still needs to include eligible provisional ballots and absentee ballots in the vote total.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 May 2025
Geter-Pataky, the vice chair of the city’s Democratic Town Committee, is facing 92 separate criminal charges, including conspiracy to take possession of multiple voters’ absentee ballots.
—Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025
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Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 17 July 2025
Another change in election laws will affect some voters who want to cast absentee ballots, Price said.
—Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025
The Butler County Board of Elections still needs to include eligible provisional ballots and absentee ballots in the vote total.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 May 2025
Geter-Pataky, the vice chair of the city’s Democratic Town Committee, is facing 92 separate criminal charges, including conspiracy to take possession of multiple voters’ absentee ballots.
—Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 25 July 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 22 Aug. 2025.
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