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Are registered to vote by October 9th.

Request an absentee ballot by October 19th before 5pm.

Click here for information about accessible voting for folks with disabilities.

Click here for information about your eligibility if you have a criminal conviction.

Active duty military, military family member, or living overseas? You have additional voting options! Visit FVAP.GOV for details specific to your situation.

Register to vote by October 9th.

Your request for an absentee ballot must be received by October 19th before 5pm.

Heads up that Oklahoma has ‘standard’ absentee ballots and several other types of absentee ballots for voters with special circumstances. Check out the list of absentee ballot types and make sure you apply for the right one!

If you haven’t voted in a while, moved recently, live at an address that’s invalid for the USPS, or have had your Voter ID card returned as unavailable, you need to send a Confirm Address for Absentee Ballot form along with your application! If you’re not sure whether this applies to you, you can always call your county’s Election Board office and ask (or submit the form just in case).

Exceptions for medical emergencies: if you become ‘physically incapacitated’ by an injury or illness after the normal deadline and can’t vote in person, use the Emergency Incapacitated Voters absentee ballot application.

Ballots must be received by 7pm on Election Day if mailed, or close of business on the Monday BEFORE Election Day (November 2nd) if hand-delivered. Postmarks don’t count, so if you’re mailing yours, we recommend putting it in the mail by October 27th.

This is important: USPS recently changed its policies and won’t always postmark mail the same day it’s picked up from a mailbox — or even the day after. To guarantee a same-day postmark, you’ll need to go to a post office and ask for a manual postmark. All the more reason to mail things early!

The ID# you provide on the form must match the ID# you used to register to vote — if you’re not sure which you used, provide multiple (ID/DL# and/or SSN).

Place your ballot in the ballot envelope provided and seal it up.

Then put that inside the affidavit envelope provided.

Fill out the information on the affidavit envelope where indicated.

• If you got a yellow affidavit envelope, you’ll need to sign it in front of a notary and have it notarized. BEWARE: Notaries in Oklahoma are NOT allowed to charge you to notarize election mail, so if they try, call them out ;)
• If you got a pink affidavit envelope, you’ll have to sign it or make your mark and then have two witnesses sign it (anyone over 18).

Put that little bundle you just created in the return envelope provided. (It’s probably green). Seal up everything that can be sealed.

If your affidavit envelope is yellow, you can hand-deliver it to your county’s Election Board office by close of business on the Monday before Election Day. But you must return it yourself, no one can drop it off for you. If your affidavit envelope is pink, you must mail your ballot back — you cannot drop it off or have anyone but a postal worker take it back for you.

If you’re returning it by mail, put a stamp on it, then pop it in the mail ASAP but definitely by October 27th.

DO NOT take your ballot to your polling place, unless you want to sign an affidavit saying that you forfeit your absentee ballot and vote normally in person instead.