Some states counties and municipalities allow voting in local elections. Please note that only the voter can return herhis own ballot to the Bureau of. Opinion Absentee Ballots Are Weak Links In Voting Integrity Marylandreporter Com Mail the absentee ballot promptly allowing at least a week or two for it to arrive. Democratic absentee ballot . But the ballot requests are coming in slower in this county. This year Democrats make up 69 percent of the absentee ballot requests. Under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act UOCAVA a federal law the Federal Post Card Application FPCA registers you to vote and requests absentee ballots for a minimum of all federal elections in the current year. Republicans have requested two thirds of the total that GOP voters returned by mail in 2016. New emails confirmed this development in the battleground state. So far about 40 percent of the total number of absentee ballot requests that have been processed statewide were subm