{"id":22724,"date":"2018-05-31T09:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=22724"},"modified":"2018-05-31T09:57:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:57:55","slug":"clerks-have-advice-for-montana-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2018\/05\/clerks-have-advice-for-montana-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Clerks have advice for Montana voters"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Vote\"<\/a>

The Montana Association of Clerks and Recorders has advice for making sure your vote is counted next week.<\/p><\/div>\n

As the June 5 federal primary quickly approaches, election administrators across Montana want voters to be\u00a0prepared for Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want voters to be aware of last-minute deadlines and reminders to ensure their vote counts,\u201d Ruth Baker, president of the Montana Association of Clerks and Recorders, said in a press release.<\/p>\n

To that end, the association sent out these reminders for voters, whether they intend to vote by mail or at polling places on June 5:<\/p>\n

If voting by mail<\/h4>\n

\u2666 If voters have not yet returned their vote-by-mail ballot, election administrators ask voters to return their ballot in person. Mailing times vary across the state and the best way to ensure your ballot is\u00a0received is to deliver it by hand to your local elections office. Clerks do not recommend returning your\u00a0ballot by mail at this point.<\/p>\n

\u2666 The deadline for vote-by-mail ballots to be received is 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5. Postmark does not apply in Montana elections, which is why clerks encourage in-person delivery.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0Voters may also drop off their vote-by-mail ballot at any polling place in their county on Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0If voters do not return the un-voted ballots in their vote-by-mail packet, they will NOT invalidate their\u00a0vote.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0If a voter has received a ballot prior to the primary, that is the voter\u2019s official ballot and he or she cannot\u00a0appear at a polling place on Election Day to vote. Replacement absentee ballots can be issued at the\u00a0county election office.

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\u2666\u00a0Track the status of your vote-by-mail ballot by visiting MyVoterPageMT.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2666 The deadline to request an absentee ballot is noon, Monday, June 4. Voters who miss this deadline are\u00a0required to vote in person at their polling place on Election Day.<\/p>\n

Late registration reminders<\/h4>\n

\u2666\u00a0Voters who need to update their voter information or register to vote can do so in the 29 days before and\u00a0on Election Day in person at their local elections office.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0Friday, June 1, is the last full day election services are available before the primary. The deadline to late register or request an absentee ballot is noon, Monday, June 4. Election offices observe this\u00a0statutory closure before every election to run reports and finalize voter registration lists. Election administrators want voters to know about this closure of services from noon to 5 p.m. the day before the election, as voters appear at local offices only to find that they have to come back the next day<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0Voters who miss the noon deadline the day before the primary can appear at their county election office for same-day voter registration between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. on June 5.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0To avoid wait times for the June 5 primary, voters are encouraged not to wait until
\nElection Day to register and vote.<\/p>\n

Polling place reminders<\/h4>\n

\u2666\u00a0Polling-place voting is reserved for voters who registered 30 days prior to the election and have not\u00a0requested a ballot prior to Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u2666 Several counties across Montana must relocate polling places due to building availability. If you plan to vote in person at a polling place on Tuesday, June 5, verify its location via the MyVoterPageMT.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2666\u00a0Polling place voters can view a sample ballot via MyVoterPageMT.com<\/a>. Voters can print out a sample\u00a0absentee status, sample ballots,\u00a0ballot at home, consider their choices and use their sample printout as a guide in the voting booth.<\/p>\n

The Association of Clerks and Recorders said voters should contact their local elections administrator with\u00a0questions or concerns, or for polling place and office locations on Election Day.<\/p>\n

The association recently created a website with basic elections resources \u2014 deadlines, forms, links, etc. \u2014 for\u00a0voters. VotinginMontana.com<\/a> offers non-partisan information about registration, polling place locations, absentee status, sample ballots, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the June 5 federal primary quickly approaches, election administrators across Montana want voters to be\u00a0prepared for Election Day. \u201cWe want voters to be aware of last-minute deadlines and reminders to ensure their vote counts,\u201d Ruth Baker, president of the Montana Association of Clerks and Recorders, said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":22725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[5158,6154],"class_list":["post-22724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montana","category-news","tag-election-day","tag-montana-association-of-clerks-and-recorders","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22728,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions\/22728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}