Voter Registration/Absentee Voting

HOW TO REGISTER TO VOTE

If you register to vote—or change party or nonpartisan enrollment—by Monday, March 26, 2012, you may vote in the Tuesday, April 24, 2012, General Election.

What To Do Don’t want to look for a Voter Registration Form at the Post Office, etc.? Get it online…

  1. Read “To Register You Must:” and GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS on this Pennsylvania Voter Registration Mail Application Form (PDF file)
  2. Print out the pdf if you are eligible to register
  3. Read INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING OUT THIS FORM on Page 2
  4. Fill out the PENNSYLVANIA VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION
  5. Sign and date the Application
  6. Mail to…

VOTER REGISTRATION OFFICE
CHESTER COUNTY
601 Westtown Road, Suite 150
PO Box 2747
West Chester, PA 19380-0990
610-344-6410

Get all kinds of
VOTING APPLICATIONS AND FORMS
in ESPANOL and six FOREIGN LANGUAGES

ABSENTEE VOTING
through Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 5:00 PM

Applying to Have a Ballot Mailed to You

Allow enough mail time for Voter Services to receive, process your Application and send you a Ballot to fill out and return to Voter Services and be received by Friday, April 20, 2012 (that could take 12 days!). You may personally carry your own filled-out Absentee Ballot to Voter Services, but you may not carry someone else’s.

By Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Request Absentee Ballot Applications by calling Voter Services at 610-344-6410, or print out the Application and mail according to its instructions:
Absentee Ballot Application (PDF File)

Who may apply for an Absentee Ballot?

All qualified, registered voters absent from the Commonwealth or municipality of their residence by reason of

  • occupation, business or duties
  • observance of religious holiday
  • persons unable to go to the polls because of illness or physical disability
  • persons employed by the State or Federal government and their spouses or dependents who are within the territorial limits of the United States and the District of Columbia, but absent from their municipality of residence.

Monday, March 26, 2012
LAST DAY to REGISTER to VOTE.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Deadline for the County Board of Elections to have received Applications for civilian absentee ballots in this office:
County Board of Elections
Voter Services Center
601 Westtown Road, Suite 150
PO Box 2747
West Chester, PA 19380-0990
610-344-6410

Friday, April 20, 2012, 5:00 PM
Deadline for the County Board of Elections to have received Absentee Ballots in their office (above) or Voter Services will not count your vote.

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