Municipal Election Absentee Voting

This guide provides essential information for voters wishing to participate in absentee voting for the upcoming municipal election in Headland, Alabama. It outlines the necessary steps to ensure your absentee ballot application is properly submitted, allowing you to cast your vote even if you cannot attend the polls in person.

To participate in absentee voting for the upcoming municipal election, please ensure that your application is either mailed or personally submitted to the City Clerk at the Municipal Building, located at 25 Grove Street, Headland, Alabama.

Dates to remember are as follows:

• Last day an Absentee Application can be received by mail is Tuesday, August 19^th

• Last day an Absentee Application can be received by the City Clerk in person is Thursday, August 21^st

• Last day an Absentee Ballot can be received in person by the City Clerk no later than 5pm on Monday, August 25^th

• Last day an Absentee Ballot can be received by mail is before noon on Tuesday, August 26^th  

To make an appointment to drop off an application or ballot with the City Clerk or for any questions please contact the City Clerk at 334-785-5601.

You must meet one of the following criteria to absentee vote:

• Expect to be out of the county or the state on election day.

• Physically incapacitated and will not be able to vote in person on election day. [ID Required]

• Physically incapacitated and will not be able to vote in person on election day. I am unable to access my assigned polling place due to a neurological, musculoskeletal, respiratory (including speech organs), cardiovascular, or other life-altering disorder that affects my ability to perform manual tasks, stand for any length of time, walk unassisted, see, hear or speak and:

a) I am an elderly voter aged 65 or older; or

b) I am a voter with a disability.

[ID Not Required)

• Expect to work a required workplace shift which has at least 10 hours which coincide with the polling hours at my regular polling place.

• A student at an educational institution located outside the county of my permanent residence and am therefore unable to vote at my usual polling place on election day.

• A member of, or a spouse or dependent of a member of, the Armed Forces of the United States or am otherwise entitled to vote absentee pursuant to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U.S.C. § 20302. [ID Not Required]

• Appointed as an election officer at a polling place which is not my regular polling place.

• A caregiver for a family member to the second degree of kinship by affinity or consanguinity and the family member is confined to his or her home.

• Currently incarcerated in prison or jail and I have not been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude.

Absentee Application.pdf

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