Absentee Voting
If you are a registered voter, you may vote by absentee ballot in the Marion County Clerk's Office. To learn more about voting by absentee ballot, click here to watch a Clerk's Clips video with County Clerk Beth White.
To absentee vote by mail, you can request an application from the Marion County Election Board or download an Application for Absentee Ballot online up to 90 days before an election. When you have completed and returned the application, a ballot will be mailed to you once they are legally available. The qualifications for receiving an absentee ballot by mail are:
- I am unable to get to the polls because I am confined or are a caretaker for a confined voter.
- I have election day duties in a precinct other than my own.
- I am 65 years or older.
- I expect to be absent from the county on election day.
- I am a voter with disabilities.
- I am an absent uniformed services voter or an overseas voter.
- I am scheduled to work at my regular place of employment during the entire 12 hours that the polls are open.
The Election Board must receive applications to cast an absentee ballot by mail by midnight the Monday of the week before the election. Applications to vote by mail that are postmarked on or before this date and received after will not be accepted.
To absentee vote by traveling board, you must request an absentee ballot application from the Marion County Election Board and choose Option "C." Upon receipt of your application, the Election Board will contact you to schedule a time for the traveling board to visit your residence.
To absentee vote in the Clerk's office, come to the City-County Building during the established hours at least 29 days before the election. For the 2008 Presidential Election, two satellite locations to vote early by absentee ballot will open Thursday, October 23. These sites are in addition to the Clerk's office.
The satellite locations are the J. Everett Light Career Center located at 1901 E. 86th Street and the Southport Community Center located at 6901 Derbyshire Rd. Both sites are open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, including the weekends. The satellite locations will close at 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 2.
At any of these sites, you will fill out an application in person and must present a valid, government-issued photo ID before you are permitted to vote. Any Marion County voter can vote early by absentee ballot at the Clerk's office or satellite location. Unlike voting by mail or traveling board, you do not need to provide a reason to vote early on-site.
For information regarding absentee voting, please call (317) 327-VOTE, email elections@indygov.org or write to:
Marion County Election Board
200 E. Washington St., Suite W-122
Indianapolis, IN 46204
(317) 327-4815 (fax)
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