Absentee Ballots

Absentee Ballot Request Form
Presidential Primary Election

Any registered voter who is absent from the city on the day of an election, who cannot appear in public because of an observance of a religious commitment, or who is unable to vote in person by reasons of a physical disability, may vote by absentee ballot. (NH RSA 657:1)

A request for an absentee ballot must be made in writing to: City Clerk, 229 Main Street, Nashua, NH 03060. The request must be signed by the person requesting the ballot and needs to include that person's legal residence (not a post office box) and an address where the voter would like to have the ballot mailed.  The next regularly scheduled election is the November 6, 2007 Municipal Election.  The date for the Presidential Primary Election has not yet been set.  For your convenience, links to absentee ballot request froms are posted at the top of this page.

For state party primaries an absentee voter needs to designate which party he or she is registered in and the City Clerk will be mail the primary ballot for that party to the voter. If the voter is Undeclared, he or she should specify which party's ballot they would like to receive. The Undeclared absentee voter's party registration will be changed to the party registration whose ballot was requested, and the ballot will be mailed to the voter.

Voters who wish to cast absentee ballots should allow enough time for the Clerk to receive the written request, for the post office to deliver the ballot, and for the voter to mail that ballot back to the City Clerk in time for the election.

It is important to note the following:

• An absentee voter can deliver only his or her own ballot in person to the City Clerk, during regular business hours, until the day before an election.
• Hand-delivered ballots may be dropped off by the voter only! Another person cannot deliver the ballot for an absentee voter. State law does not allow anyone but the voter or mail service to deliver a ballot.
• Hand-delivered absentee ballots will not be accepted at the City Clerk's Office on election day. Voters who are present in the City on election day must go to the polls to vote. The absentee ballot should be disposed of since ward election officials are not authorized to accept absentee ballots at the polls. Instead, a regular ballot will be issued at the checklist table.
• Ballots received by mail after 5 p.m. on election day will not be counted.
  
  For an Absentee Ballot Request Form for the Municipal General Election on November 6, 2007, click here.