Once you receive your absentee ballot, you must fill it out and have it notarized before you return it to your local election authority. Under Missouri law, notaries cannot charge a fee for notarizing a ballot. Disabled, sick and temporarily incapacitated voters — including their caregivers — are exempt from the notary requirement.

A state appeals court is upholding a lower court's finding that a Republican-controlled county in Pennsylvania violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters whether their mail-in ballot in April's primary election would be counted.

The Washington County Board of Elections must notify voters of mail-in ballot errors so they can vote provisionally, a Pennsylvania appellate court panel ruled Tuesday. The decision upheld a lower court ruling that a policy barring election workers from notifying voters about mail-in ballot errors was unconstitutional.