In Montgomery County, ballot postage is 71 cents, said Jan Kelly, the Board of Elections director.
“Each county has their own postage amount. It depends … If it’s a two- or three-page or one-page (ballot), and if it’s 11 inches or 18,” she said.
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Kelly said before ballots are mailed to voters, they are weighed beforehand by multiple postal employees before postage is determined. The amount is then printed on the ballot instructions sent to voters.
“We don’t pay for mail to be returned to us free,” Kelly said. “You have to pay for what is returned.”
Greene County residents voting by mail have also been instructed to affix 71 cents in postage to their ballots, said Llyn McCoy, board of elections director.
Miami County voters can get by with a single Forever Stamp, or 50 cents, said Beverly Kendall, the elections board director.
“We have the same type ballots throughout the county, and it’s just one page,” she said.
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Kendall said an important step in completing a mail-in ballot is providing the proper information on the identification envelope. If a voter fails to include the envelope or it’s missing a birthday, driver’s license number or the requested Social Security digits, the ballot could be delayed, Kendall said.
“We have to send a state-prescribed form back to the voter so that they can get a chance to fix it so we can count their ballot,” she said.
Completed ballots can also be dropped off at the proper county elections board office.
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