ABSENTEE BALLOTS
NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
866-VOTE-NYC
You can file an absentee ballot application in person at your borough board of elections on any business day or you can apply by mail.
You can download an absentee ballot application and mail it in.
You can call 866-VOTE-NYC and the Board of elections will send you a postage-paid application in the mail.
Mail (DO NOT FAX) the Absentee Ballot Application to:
Board of Elections in the City of New York
32 Broadway, 7 Fl
New York, NY 10004-1609
Application Deadline: POSTMARKED 7 days prior to the election or delivered in person on or before Election Day
Ballot Deadline: POSTMARKED 1 day before the election
Special Criteria: In order to vote absentee you must fit one of the following:
- unavoidably absent from the City of New York on Election Day due to duties, occupation,
- business, studies, or vacation
- patient in a Veteran’s Administration Hospital
- detained in jail awaiting trial or action by grand jury
- confined in prison after a non-felony conviction
- unable to vote illness or disability (under doctor’s advise, confided to a hospital, permanent illness or disability
