Absentee Deadlines approaching

The State Election Commission wants voters to be aware of upcoming deadlines for voting by absentee ballot in the June 10 Statewide Primaries. Qualified voters may vote absentee in person or by mail. To vote in person, visit your county voter registration office, complete an application, and cast your ballot. You may vote absentee in person up until 5pm on June 9. To vote by mail, get the application online at www.scvotes.org or request an application from your county voter registration office by phone, mail, email or fax. You will be mailed an application. Complete and sign the application and return it to your county voter registration office as soon as possible and no later than 5pm on June 6. You can return the application by mail, fax, or email. You will be mailed an absentee ballot. Vote the ballot following ballot instructions and return it to your county voter registration office no later than 7pm on June 10. You may return the ballot personally or by mail. Visit www.scvotes.org to check your voter registration and absentee ballot status and get your sample ballot. Voters qualified to vote by absentee ballot are students attending school outside their county of residence and their spouses and dependents, members of the Armed Forces or Merchant Marine serving outside their county of residence and their spouses and dependents residing with them, persons serving with the American Red Cross or United Service Organizations serving with the Armed Forces outside their county of residence and their spouses and dependents, persons who, for reasons of employment, will not be able to vote on election day, physically disabled persons, government employees serving outside their county of residence on Election Day and their spouses and dependents residing with them, persons with a death or funeral in the family within three days before the election, persons who plan to be on vacation outside their county of residence on Election Day, certified poll watchers, poll managers, and county election officials working on Election Day, overseas citizens, persons attending sick or physically disabled persons, persons admitted to the hospital as emergency patients on Election Day or within a four-day period before the election, persons serving as a juror in state or federal court on Election Day, persons sixty-five years of age or older and persons confined to a jail or pre-trial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial.