Application for Absentee Ballot

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LDF Attorney
- Lani Guinier
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Bozeman v. Lambert
Case
- Bozeman v. Lambert
U.S. state
- Alabama
Collection
- Case Files
Creator
- Lani Guinier & Others
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 8d013e8d-ef92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Bozeman & Wilder Working Files. Application for Absentee Ballot, 1979. 9f1408ce-ed92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/7cd45085-cc5a-41b6-91d6-f1d45cd3d1c5/application-for-absentee-ballot. Accessed April 06, 2025.

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    APPLICATION FOR ABSENTEE BALLOT
G ENERAL, CO NSTITUT IO NAL A.\I ENDIVIENT S PECIAL O R }T UNICIP.\ L ELECTIONS

To HON. Absentee Election \lanager

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Dear Sir:

I will be unable to vote a1 my regular polling place on

I hereby make applicarion for an absentee ballot that I may vote in the election to be held on that date'

Applicant's Name

Residence Address

Alabama

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Precinct in which I last voted

Mail ballot to address

Siened

If signed by mark the name of the witness must be signed hereon.

Witness signature

This application may be handed by the applicant to the resister or forwarded to him by United States lvf ail'

PENALTIES
$ 17-10-17 as amended-

Any person who willfully changes an absentee voter's ballot to the extent that it does not reflect the voter's true ballot

or any person who willfully votes more th;; ;nce by absentee in the same election or any Person who willfully votes

for another voter or falsiflres absentee uauoi-.pp[."iionr or verilication documents so as to vote absentee in violation

of this chapter, upon conviction, shail be punis'h'ed by imprisonment in the penitentiarv for not less than one nor more

rhan two years, or by a f-rne of nor less than s500.0onor more,i,"n sz,ooo.bo, o, uy dting both fined and imprisoned'

It shall be unlawful for any candidate to aid or assist or to tell or suggest-the name of any candidate to any person when

he is in the process of voting his absentee u"iiot u.rore the register-o-r other Person authorrzed to administer oaths' Any

person who willfully aids 
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p.rron unlawiully to v.ote 
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ballot, lny person who knowingly and unlawfully

votes an absentee ballot and any voter who votis both an absentee and a regular tallot at any election shall be similarly

punished.

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Memorandum from Richardson to Guinier

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