Absentee Ballots

Connecticut law allows you to receive an absentee ballot if you cannot appear at your assigned polling place on election day because of:

• active service in the Military,
• absence from the town during all of the hours of voting,
• illness,
• religious tenets forbid secular activity on the day of the election,
• duties as an election official at a polling place other than your own during all of the hours of voting,
• or physical disability.

The State of Connecticut has determined that the existence of the COVID-19 virus allows you to vote by absentee ballot if you so choose for your own safety.

To receive your absentee ballot please complete and sign an application and return it to the Town Clerk.

Absentee Ballots of Other Types

• Emergency Ballot
  

  For an emergency ballot within 6 days of an election, please use the following:
  English Emergency Application for Absentee Ballot
  Spanish Emergency Application for Absentee Ballot

• Referendum
  For a referendum with less than 3 weeks’ notice, please use the following (please note these ballots can not be mailed to you):
  English Application for Referendum with less than 3 weeks' notice
  Spanish Application for Referendum with less than 3 weeks' notice 

• Permanent Disability
  If you have a permanent disability, you may be eligible to apply for a permanent absentee ballot. Contact the Greenwich Town Clerk for details.
  

• Print Disability
  The absentee ballot application, which is accessible by screen readers, includes a check box to indicate that the voter has a print disability.  The Town Clerk will send the ballot envelopes WITHOUT a ballot to the voter and the Secretary of the State will e-mail an accessible ballot to the voter.  The voter will fill out the ballot using their screen reader, print it, and return it in the provided envelopes.  The inner envelope must be signed but it is OK if the signature is not in the correct spot.

Election Day Registration

The pre-election voter registration cutoff deadline is seven days before Election Day.  Connecticut also has Election Day Registration (EDR) on Election Day itself for voters who need it for regular elections only, not special elections or primaries.

Election Day Registration permits anyone to register and vote in person on Election Day who:

• is not already registered OR is registered in one town but has moved to another town,
• is a US citizen,
• is age 18 or older,
• is a bona fide resident of the town in which he or she applies for admission
• and has completed confinement and parole if previously convicted of a disfranchising felony.
  

For EDR you must go to Greenwich Town Hall between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.  The EDR location is currently the Lounge in the Lower Level of Town Hall.   

The entire process is lengthy, as it includes voter registration and verification at Town Hall, and then finally the actual casting of a ballot at your polling place.  Depending on the popularity of this option and the individual voter’s circumstances, wait times can vary from a minimum of 20 minutes to an hour.  A voter must bring the appropriate proof of identity and residency.