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Absentee Voting Hours for August Partisan Primary:   VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT – AUGUST 13, 2024 PARTISAN PRIMARY   Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place on Election Day may submit a request to vote an absentee ballot to their municipal clerk.  A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen who: will be 18 years of age or older on Election Day. has resided in the ward or municipality where they wish to vote for at least 28 consecutive days before the election.   The elector must also be registered to vote to receive an absentee ballot.  Proof of identification must be provided before an absentee ballot may be issued*.  Making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the primary or election or both.  You may make written application to your municipal clerk for an absentee ballot by mail, by fax, by email or at MyVote.wi.gov. Or you may apply in person at the clerk’s office during the In-Person Absentee Voting period listed below. Your written request must include: your voting address within the municipality where you wish to vote the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, if different from the address above your signature a copy of your photo identification* The deadline for making application to receive an absentee ballot by mail is: 5:00 p.m. on the fifth day before the election, August 8, 2024. *Voters who are indefinitely confined due to age, illness, infirmity, or disability may not be required to provide photo ID. If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot. **Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror.  If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk regarding deadlines for requesting and submitting an absentee ballot.   Voting an absentee ballot in person You may also request and vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office or other specified location during the days and hours specified for casting an absentee ballot in person.   Michele R. Smith, Clerk      262-495-2049 1125 Highway 106, Palmyra, WI 53156 Tuesdays from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Wednesdays, from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 2024 – 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Additional voting hours available by arrangement.   The first day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is:   July 30, 2024 The last day to vote an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is:  August 8, 2024     No in-person absentee voting may occur on the day before the election. The municipal clerk will deliver voted ballots returned on or before Election Day to the proper polling place or counting location before the polls close on (insert date of primary or election).  Any ballots received after the polls close will not be counted.    

Type B Notice of Partisan Primary

Notice of Partisan Primary and Sample Ballots
August 9, 2022

Office of the Jefferson County Clerk

To the voters of Jefferson County:

Notice is hereby given of a partisan primary to be held in Jefferson County on August 9, 2022,
at which the nominees for the offices named below shall be chosen. The names of the
candidates for each office, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, are
given under the title of the office under the appropriate party, each in its proper column,
together with the questions submitted to a vote, if any, in the sample ballot below.
Information to Voters

Upon entering the polling place and before being permitted to vote, a voter shall:
• state their name and address
• show an acceptable form of photo identification*
• sign the poll book**

*If a voter does not have acceptable photo identification, the voter may obtain a free
photo ID for voting from the Division of Motor Vehicles.

**If the voter is unable to sign the poll book due to disability, a poll worker may write the
word “exempt.”

If a voter is not registered to vote, they may register to vote at the polling place serving their
residence if the voter provides proof of residence.

Where ballots are distributed to voters, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot.

Upon being permitted to vote, the voter shall enter a voting booth or go to a machine and cast
their ballot. The vote should not be cast in any manner other than specified here. Sample
ballots or other materials to assist the voter in marking their ballot may be taken into the booth
and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is
marked.

A voter who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the voter’s minor child or minor
ward.

An election official may inform the voter of the proper manner for casting a vote but the official
may not advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

Assistance for Voting

A voter may select an individual to assist in casting their vote if the voter declares to the
presiding official that they are unable to read, have difficulty reading, writing, or understanding
English, or that due to disability are unable to cast their ballot. The selected individual
rendering assistance may not be the voter’s employer or an agent of that employer or an
officer or agent of a labor organization which represents the voter. If a voter is unable to state
their name and address, an assistant may also do so for the voter.

At the partisan primary, the voter shall select the party of their choice. Voting for candidates
of more than one party may invalidate the ballot. The voter must cast a vote for individual
candidates.

Where Optical Scan Voting is used
• If a party preference is designated, and votes are cast for ballot candidates of another
party or write-in votes are cast in another party, only votes cast in the designated party
will count.
• If a party preference is not designated, and votes are cast for candidates (or write-in
votes are cast) in more than one party, no votes will be counted

Within the party of their choice, the voter shall fill in the oval next to the name of the candidate of
their choice for each office for which they intend to vote. To vote for a person whose name does
not appear on the ballot, the voter shall write in the name of the person of their choice in the space
provided for a write-in vote and fill in the oval next to the write-in line.

When using an electronic ballot marking device, Express Vote, to mark an optical scan ballot, the
voter shall touch the screen or use the tactile pad to select the party of their choice. The voter shall
then touch the screen at the name of the candidate of their choice for each office for which they
intend to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the voter shall type
in the name of the person of their choice in the space provided for a write-in vote.
Spoiled Ballots

If a voter spoils an optical scan ballot, they shall return it to an election official who shall issue another
ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one voter. If the ballot has
not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the voter shall return it to the
election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place.
The voter may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station before the ballot is cast.

After Voting the Ballot

After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it may be inserted in the security sleeve, so the
marks do not show. The voter shall then insert the ballot in the voting device and discard the
sleeve or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit The voter shall leave the polling place promptly.
promptly.