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How do I vote by mail?
Complete, print and sign the Absentee Ballot Application form (English) and return it by mail or in-person to:
Click here for the Spanish language vote-by-mail application.
Butler County Board of Elections
1802 Princeton Road, Suite 600
Hamilton, OH 45011
We will mail your ballot and identification envelope to you after early voting opens. We will include instructions for returning your voted ballot by mail, or use our drop box located outside the Board of Elections office.
Vote by mail ballots will be mailed beginning on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 for the November 5, 2024 General Election.
Deadline to submit a Vote by Mail Application:
Applications must be received at the Board of Elections by 8:30pm on the Tuesday immediately preceding an election.
Deadline to return your Vote by Mail Ballot:
Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked by the Monday before Election Day for all elections.
Or you may return your ballot in person to the Board of Elections office by 7:30pm on Election Day.
Do not return your voted ballot to your polling place on Election Day.
Deadline for the November 5, 2024 General Election: Postmarked by Monday, November 4, 2024 (if returning by mail) or returned to the Butler County Board of Elections office or ballot box by 7:30pm on Tuesday, November 5, 2024
How to return your ballot
Voted ballots may be returned to Butler County Board of Elections by mail, in-person, or secured drop box.
Butler County Board of Elections
1802 Princeton Road, Suite 600
Hamilton, OH 45011
An elector may return an absentee ballot (1) by mail, (2) deliver it personally to the board of elections, or (3) may have a spouse of the elector, the father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandfather,grandmother, brother, or sister of the whole or half blood, or the son, daughter, adopting parent, adopted child, stepparent, stepchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece of the elector may deliver it to the board. R.C. 3509.05(A). Per Directive 2024-21 a person described in R.C. 3509.05(A) may deliver the ballot in person inside the board of elections office and must complete an attestation form.
USE OF SECURE ABSENTEE BALLOT DROP BOX A. Attestation of Assistant Delivering a Ballot to a Board of Elections To ensure compliance with state and federal law, and to protect the security of absentee ballot delivery, the only individual who may use a drop box to return the ballot is the voter. All individuals who are delivering ballots for a family member or disabled voter may either mail the ballot to the county board of elections or return the ballot to a county board of elections official at the county board of elections office and complete an attestation at the board of elections. Boards are required to provide the person assisting a voter with an attestation form which declares under penalty of election falsification: (1) That they are returning a ballot on behalf of a family member under R.C. 3509.05 (C)(1), and that they have been lawfully designated to assist another voter with the return of an absentee ballot; 4 or 4 See R.C. 3599.21(A)(9). Office of the Ohio Secretary of State 3 | page (2) If the person is assisting a disabled voter, that they are complying with Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act and that they are not the voter’s employer or agent of that employer or officer or agent of the voter’s union. 5
Envelopes containing marked absent voter’s ballots must be delivered to the board no later than the close of polls on the day of the election. However, any return envelope that is postmarked prior to the day of the election must be delivered to the board before the 4th day after the election. R.C. 3509.05(B)(1).
Ballots that are delivered in envelopes postmarked prior to the day of the election that are received after the close of polls on election through the 4th day thereafter must be counted on the 5th day. R.C. 3509.05(B)(1).
UOCAVA voters must submit the absentee ballot for mailing not later than 12:01 a.m. at the place where the voter completes the ballot, on the date of the election. R.C. 3511.09.
Please note that the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) estimates that it may take two to five days for an elector’s voted absentee ballot to be delivered to the board of elections by mail.
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