Anne was unable to physically cast her vote at an election station on election day, so she sent in an absentee ballot by mail instead.
Absentee ballot
Definition
A paper ballot submitted, before an election day and often by mail, by a voter who is unable to attend the official polling station on election day. Also termed absentee vote.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
A paper ballot submitted by mail or in person by a voter who expects to be unable to get to his or her polling place on election day.
Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
August 19, 2010, 5:10 pm
“The court concluded that the election laws should be construed to apply to an inmate confined in jail and not otherwise disenfranchised since this constituted a ‘physical disability’ in the sense that he was physically disabled from leaving his confinement to go to the polls to vote, and that the statute therefore entitled such persons to vote by absentee ballot.” C.J. Burger, O’Brien v. Skinner, 414 U.S. 524, 527 (1974).
