To Request an absentee ballot you may request one in one of the following ways:

• Download an absentee ballot application 
• NYS Online Absentee Portal
• NYS Fillable Accessible ballot application
• Accessible Electronic Absentee Ballot Application - 
  • Voters with a visual impairment that require a ballot with accessible features may apply using the online Accessible Absentee Ballot Application portal. Voters using the accessible absentee ballot system in need of printing services in order to print their ballot can access such services at certain public printing resources, including but not limited to, libraries, print stores, shipping stores, and office supply stores.  Voters should contact their local printing resources for details on the printing services offered.  In-person voting using an accessible Ballot Marking Device ("BMD") during early voting or on Election Day is still available to voters with a disability who do not want to vote by absentee ballot using the accessible absentee ballot system.
• NYS Fillable Absentee Application Form (paper)
• Federal Absentee Application Request form (Online)
  • If you are a member of the Uniformed Services or Merchant Marine on active duty OR an eligible spouse or dependent;
  • an activated National Guard member on State Orders;
  • A U.S. Citizen living overseas
  • A voter temporarily living overseas
• Federal Absentee Ballot Application Form (paper)

How to cast your Absentee Ballot

• Once you receive the ballot, mark the ballot according to your choices for each office following the instructions on the ballot
• Once you have completed marking your ballot, fold it up and place it in the Security Envelope.
• Sign and date the outside of the Security Envelope.
• Seal the Security Envelope.
• All absentee ballots include a pre-paid Return Envelope.  Place the Security Envelope in the Return Envelope.  The Return Envelope will have the return address of your County Board of Elections on the outside and should have a logo that reads "Official Election Mail".  
• Seal the Return Envelope.

How to return your ballot:

• Put it in the mail ensuring it receives a postmark no later than Election day.
• Bring it to your County Board of Elections no later than Election day.  Someone else may drop it off for you if the Security Envelope is sealed and signed.
• Bring it to an early voting poll site in your county.
• Bring it to any poll site in your county on Election day.

ပှၤတထီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးလၢတၢ်မၤန့ၢ်အီၤသ့

Voters with a visual impairment that require a ballot with accessible features may apply using the online Accessible Absentee Ballot Application portal: https://ballotapplication.elections.ny.gov/home/accessible

ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးတဖၣ်လၢအသူ၀ဲဒၣ်ပှၤတထီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးအလံာ်က့လၢတၢ်မၤန့ၢ်သူအီၤသ့အသနူလၢအလိၣ်ဘၣ်၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်ကစဲးကျံးထုးထီၣ်အတၢ်မၤစၢၤမ့ၢ်ဒ်သိးအစဲးကျံးထုးထီၣ်အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးအလံာ်က့န့ၣ်မၤန့ၢ်သူတၢ်မၤစၢၤဒ်သိးအံၤတဖၣ်လၢကမျၢၢ်တၢ်စဲးကျံးထုးထီၣ်တၢ်အဂံၢ်ထံးတနီၤအလီၢ်သ့လီၤ,တၢ်အံၤပာ်ဃုာ်ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တမ့ၢ်ထဲ,လံာ်ရိဒၢး,တၢ်စဲးကျံးထုးထီၣ်တၢ်အလီၢ်တဖၣ်,တၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှ့ၤအလီၢ်တဖၣ်ဒီး၀ဲၤဒၢးတၢ်သူတၢ်စွဲအလီၢ်တဖၣ်ဧိၤန့ၣ်ဘၣ်. ပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးတဖၣ်ကြၢးဆဲးကျိး၀ဲဒၣ်အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်အလီၢ်က၀ီၤတၢ်စဲးကျံးတၢ်အဂံၢ်ထံးတဖၣ်လၢတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လီၤတံၢ်အဂီၢ်လၢအဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးတၢ်စဲးကျံးထုးထီၣ်အတၢ်မၤစၢၤလၢအဟ့ၣ်၀ဲတဖၣ်အဂီၢ်လီၤ.

တၢ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးလၢကစၢ်သူ၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်ဖးအလံာ်က့လၢတၢ်မၤန့ၢ်သူအီၤသ့တၢ်မၤနီၣ်အစဲးပီးလီ (“BMD”) ဖဲတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ဆိတၢ်ဖးအဆၢကတီၢ်မ့တမ့ၢ်ဖဲတၢ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးအမုၢ်နံၤ(Election Day)န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒံး၀ဲဒၣ်လၢပှၤဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးတဖၣ်လၢအအိၣ်ဒီးသးနီၢ်ခိတလၢတပှဲၤတဆူၣ်တချ့လၢအတအဲၣ်ဒိးဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးခီဖျိပှၤတထီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်က့န့ၣ်သူ၀ဲဒၣ်ပှၤတထီၣ်ဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်က့အသနူလၢတၢ်မၤန့ၢ်သူအီၤသ့န့ၣ်သ့လီၤ.

• NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS RELEASES NEW ELECTRONIC ACCESSIBLE BALLOT DELIVERY SYSTEM ( pdf 148KB)
• Hernandez Settlement Agreement Summary (pdf 116KB)
• Hernandez Settlement Agreement and Order (pdf 417KB)

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