VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT
Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear a the polling place on election day may request to vote an absentee ballot A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen, who will be 18 years of age or older on election day, who has resided in the ward or municipality where he or she wished to vote of at least 10 days before the election. The elector must also be registered in order to receive an absentee ballot.
TO OBTAIN AN ABSENTEE BALLOT
YOU MUST MAKE A REQUEST IN WRITING.
Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the spring election. You may also request an absentee ballot by letter. Your written request must list your voting address within the municipality where you wish to vote, the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, if different, and your signature.
Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined to home or a care facility, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror. If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk.
You can also personally go to the clerks office or other specified locations, complete a written application, and vote an absentee ballot during the hours specified for casting an absentee ballot.
Lisa Tollefson, Town Clerk
5818 N Kennedy Rd
Milton, WI 53563
608-868-6065
The deadline for making application to vote by absentee ballot by mail is 5:00 p.m. on Thursday April 1, 2010. The deadline for voting an absentee ballot in the Clerk's office is 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 5, 2010. All voted ballots must be returned to the Municipal Clerk so the Clerk can deliver them to the proper polling place or counting location before the polls close on Tuesday, April 6, 2010.