Early voting for all interested voters will be conducted in the Registrar of Voters Office Tuesday, Oct. 23 – Saturday, Oct. 27 and Monday, Oct. 29 – Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 8:30 am – 6 pm.
The last day to register to vote and/or make changes is Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 4:30 pm (in person and by mail) and Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 11:59 pm (online voter registration).
Absentee voting by mail is intended for voters who will be out of parish on Election Day and the week of early voting, or if a person is over 65, or has mibility impaired ID card (must provide copy). Fax requests to 318-357-2212 or mail to Registrar of Voters, P.O. Box 677, Natchitoches, LA 71458.
The last day to make a written request for an absentee ballot by mail: Friday, Nov. 2 at 4:30 pm. Written request form can be downloaded at www.sos.la.gov under “Elections.” Click on the “Vote” link; click on “Vote by Mail;” click on “Application to Vote by Mail.”
Your written request must include: Voter’s Name, Voter’s Natchitoches Parish Address, Voter’s Date of Birth, Voter’s Social Security Number or Driver’s License Number, Reason the Ballot is Being Requested, Election Date (November 6, 2018), Address to Mail the Ballot to, and Voters Signature.
Mail and hand delivered ballots must be returned to the Registrar’s Office by 4:30 pm the day before the election. Military and Overseas Ballots must be returned to the Registrar’s Office before 12 pm on Election Day.
Call 318-357-2211 for more information.
Issues on the Nov. 6, 2018 Ballot:
Statewide:
Secretary of State
US Representative 4th Congressional District
Proposition to authorize fantasy sports contests
Constitutional amendments
Local:
School Board District 1, District 2, District 3, District 4, District 6, District 7, District 8, District 9 and District 11
Village of Ashland- Mayor
Town of Campti- Mayor, Councilmen
Village of Clarence- Alderman
Village of Goldonna- Mayor, Chief of Police, Aldermen
Village of Provencal- Mayor, Chief of Police
Village of Robeline- Mayor, Aldermen
Fire Protection District 3 Renewal (9.52 Mill Property Tax- 10 Years Beginning 2019 and ending 2028)
When you boycott voting in an election for any reason, you are only giving you vote away. You do not make a statement, you lose your voice.
This is misleading. LOTS of people can vote by mail, according to the Louisiana State Elections and Voting page, so DON’T BE DISENFRANCHISED by misinformation!
GENERAL APPLICATION QUALIFICATIONS (REASONS TO APPLY)
Senior Citizen: If you are 65 years of age or older you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail. You may request a ballot for one (1) election only or you may choose to automatically receive a ballot by mail for all upcoming elections unless you cancel your request in writing to the registrar of voters or a ballot is returned as undeliverable.
Temporarily Absent: If you are temporarily outside of Louisiana or your parish during the early voting period and on election day, or expect to be, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail. Any person who requests an absentee by mail ballot be mailed to an address within the parish must indicate on the application the dates that they will be outside the territorial limits of the state or absent from the parish.
Offshore: If you work or expect to be offshore working during the early voting period and on election day, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Nursing Home: If you reside in a nursing home, veterans’ home or a hospital for an extended stay for a physical disability and are unable to vote in person during early voting or at the polls on election day, you may apply through a General Application and enroll in the nursing home early voting program. You are required to provide a physician’s letter that indicates that by reason of your disability, you are unable to appear in person to vote either during early voting or at the polling place on election day, and once accepted by the registrar of voters, the registrar or a deputy registrar will go to your home facility during a period of a week prior to the beginning of early voting through the last day of early voting. The registrar of voters will bring either a paper ballot or a portable voting machine and guide you through the process of casting your vote.
Higher Education: If you are a student, instructor or professor located and living outside of your parish of registration, or the spouse/dependent thereof, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Clergy: If you are minister, priest, rabbi, or other member of the clergy assigned outside of your parish of registration, or a spouse/dependent, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Moved Out of Parish: If you moved more than 100 miles from the parish seat of your former residence after the voter registration books closed (30 days prior to an election), you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Involuntary Confinement: If you are involuntarily confined in an institution for mental treatment outside your parish of registration and you are not interdicted and not judicially declared incompetent, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Hospitalized: If you expect to be hospitalized on election day and did not have knowledge of the hospitalization until after the time for early voting had expired; or you were hospitalized during the time for early voting and you expect to be hospitalized on election day; or you were either hospitalized or restricted to bed by your physician during early voting and on election day, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Incarcerated: If you are incarcerated or expect to be incarcerated in an institution inside or outside of your parish of registration and you are not under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Address Confidentiality Program: If you are a program participant in the secretary of state’s Address Confidentiality Program, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
Juror: If you will be sequestered on the day of the election, you may apply through a General Application and once accepted by the registrar of voters, vote by mail.
boycott voting for mayor in Robeline .
Why? What’s going on in Robeline?