Casting Your Ballot
Polling Places
On Election Day, the polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. You must always vote at your assigned polling place. Contact the Board of Elections if you are unsure of your polling location, or go to our polling locator at where do I vote?
Elderly and Handicap Accessible
If your designated polling place is not accessible for the elderly and/or handicapped, you may make application for reassignment to an accessible polling place. A Maryland voter who is elderly or disabled and who wishes to vote in person in the September 14, 2010 Primary Election and/or the November 2, 2010 General Election has until close of the business on Tuesday August 24, 2010 for the Primary Election and Tuesday, October 12, 2010 for the General Election, to request that the voter be reassigned to an accessible polling place if the voter's home polling place is inaccessible.
A request for reassignment must be in writing and reach the appropriate local board of elections by close of August 24, 2010 for the Primary Election and October 12, 2010 for the General Election. At that time, the local board of elections will reassign the voter to a polling place that is accessible, where the voter may vote the ballot of his or her home precinct.
How Do I Vote?
Baltimore County has a new Touch-Screen Voting System. The Accuvote-TS System is used at all voting locations and offers the following features:
- Touch screen voting
- Intelligent voter card technology
- Electronic ballot access
- Screen "magnify" feature
- Results securely stored using world-class encryption techniques
- On-screen write-in capability (General Election only)
- Full accessibility for the disabled
To learn more about the voting systems in use in Maryland visit www.mdvotes.org.
Absentee Ballots
You may request an absentee ballot if you are unable to vote at your designated polling place. To obtain an absentee ballot application for requesting an absentee ballot, you can do one of the following:
- go to www.elections.state.md.us
- call the local board of elections.
The deadline for for your local board to receive your request for an absentee ballot is September 7, 2010 for the Primary Election and October 26, 2010 for the General Election at 4:30 p.m. if by mail, and before midnight if by fax.
Emergency applications are accepted in person until the polls close on election day.
Absentee ballots must be received by your local Board of Elections by 8 p.m. September 14, 2010 for the Primary Election, and 8 p.m. October 26, 2010 for the General Election. Absentee ballots delivered by the U.S. Postal Service or by a private mail carrier may be received by September 22, 2010 by 10 a.m. if postmarked that it was mailed before Election Day, September 14, 2010 for the Primary Election. Absentee ballots delivered by the U.S. Postal Service or by a private mail carrier may be received by November 12, 2010 by 10 a.m. if postmarked that it was mailed before Election Day, November 2, 2010 for the General Election.
The official absentee canvas is September 16, 2010 for the Primary Election and November 4, 2010 at 10 a.m for the General Election. This is open to the public.
Contact your Board of Elections for additional information. In order to receive your ballot timely, we recommend your request be made as early as possible.
Revised July 20, 2009
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