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Voting 101: Student Takes"Inside Look" Absentee Voting
By Michelle Chadwick, Corner Post Staff

If you have been going to class lately, you have noticed the people trying to get you to register to vote. You may think that these people are there to annoy you, but voting is really an important issue. Many students on campus agree that absentee voting is more beneficial than changing your county or state of residence.

There are some important advantages to voting absentee, such as not having to find a poll booth on November 2, which can be tricky considering the clerk doesn’t even know where they are yet. Another advantage is still being able to vote in your county elections.

Because this is the first chance many of us have had to vote in a presidential election, many of us do not know how. So here are some instructions to help you:

• Step 1: Go to your local courthouse or call to request an absentee ballot. If you are not going to be home anytime soon, your parents can do it for you. Someone may have to provide a signature depending on what county you are from.
  
• Step 2: Once you have filled out the ballot, you should return it to the county clerk. If you are mailing it back, it needs to be notarized. In order to have something notarized, you can take it to a banks or a license bureau. If you are delivering the ballot by hand, it does not need to be notarized.
  

The deadline to have an absentee ballot mailed to you is October 27. If you are going to be in your hometown, you can also vote in the Clerk’s office until November 1.

As one student said, “IT’S EASY AS PIE!”

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