General Absentee
GENERAL APPLICATION QUALIFICATIONS (REASONS TO APPLY)
Senior Citizen: If you are 65 years of age or older you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote. You may request a ballot for one (1) election only, or you may choose to automatically receive an absentee ballot for all upcoming elections. Once you have opted in to automatically receive absentee ballots, you may choose to opt out at any time by submitting an Absentee Program Opt-Out Form or your own written request to your parish registrar of voters. You will be removed from the Absentee Program automatically if any ballot mailed to you is returned to the registrar as undeliverable.
Temporarily Absent: If you are temporarily outside of Louisiana or your parish during the early voting period and on election day, or expect to be, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote. Any person who requests an absentee ballot be mailed to an address within the parish must indicate on the application the dates that they will be outside the territorial limits of the state or absent from the parish.
Offshore: If you work or expect to be offshore working during the early voting period and on election day, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Nursing Home: If you reside in a nursing home, veterans' home or a hospital for an extended stay for a physical disability and are unable to vote in person during early voting or at the polls on election day, you may apply through a General Application and enroll in the nursing home early voting program. Once accepted by the registrar of voters, the registrar or a deputy registrar will go to your home facility during a period of a week prior to the beginning of early voting through the last day of early voting. The registrar of voters will bring either a paper ballot or a portable voting machine and guide you through the process of casting your vote.
Higher Education: If you are a student, instructor or professor located and living outside of your parish of registration, or the spouse/dependent thereof, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Clergy: If you are minister, priest, rabbi, or other member of the clergy assigned outside of your parish of registration, or a spouse/dependent, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Moved Out of Parish: If you moved more than 100 miles from the parish seat of your former residence after the voter registration books closed (30 days prior to an election), you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Involuntary Confinement: If you are involuntarily confined in an institution for mental treatment outside your parish of registration and you are not interdicted and not judicially declared incompetent, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Hospitalized: If you expect to be hospitalized on election day and did not have knowledge of the hospitalization until after the time for early voting had expired; or you were hospitalized during the time for early voting and you expect to be hospitalized on election day; or you were either hospitalized or restricted to bed by your physician during early voting and on election day, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Applications must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. CST on the 4th day before the election, unless you submit physician or hospital documentation with your application, in which case, the deadline is 4:30 p.m. CST on the day before the election.
A voter who feels they will not have time to vote timely by mail may request that the registrar transmit electronically a ballot along with a certificate and waiver of the right to a secret ballot, and the registrar shall do so. Alternatively, an immediate family member of the voter may pick up the necessary instructions, certificate, ballot, and envelope at the registrar's office.
Incarcerated: If you are incarcerated or expect to be incarcerated in an institution inside or outside of your parish of registration and you are not under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Address Confidentiality Program: If you are a program participant in the secretary of state's Address Confidentiality Program, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
Juror: If you will be sequestered on the day of the election, you may apply through a General Application and, once accepted by the registrar of voters, absentee vote.
