Caregivers: Can You Cast An Absentee Ballot for a Parent or Spouse?

With just three weeks remaining until Election Day, some city residents are wondering if they can complete and sign an absentee ballot for a child, parent or spouse that they care for.

Town Clerk Sandra Russo-Driska says her office has received a number of calls from voters inquiring about just that. "No one is permitted by law to sign an application for another individual, child or not, who is physically capable of signing their own name. Not being present to sign an application does not constitute not being able to sign," a statement from her office reads.

The Secretary of the State's office allows in individual to cast an absentee ballot if he or she falls into one of these categories:

• Absence from town during all hours of voting (Nov. 6, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
• Active service in the armed forces
• Religious tenants forbidding secular activity on Election Day
• Duties as an elections official at a polling place other than your own
• Physical disability

Ballots must be received in office

• Ballot registration and ballot requested by Nov. 5
• Competed and signed ballot returned by Nov. 6

For information, see here, email townclerk@middletownct.org or call (860) 344-3459. You can download the state of Connecticut absentee ballot from the pdf attached to this article.

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