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Early voting for the November 5 general election began last Friday, Sept. 20. All registered voters can vote early in the Registrar’s Office at 2 East Main Street in Fincastle, Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The office will also be open on Saturday, October 26, and Saturday, November 2. The last day to vote early in person is November 2.
This year’s elections will cover the offices of President of the United States, United States Senate, House of Representatives 6th District, and local elections in the towns of Fincastle, Buchanan, and Troutville.
This year’s ballot will also include a proposed Constitutional Amendment regarding a tax exemption currently available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action that the exemption should or should not also be available to the surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty.
Absentee ballots were mailed on Tuesday, September 17. Those ballots can be returned personally by the voter to the Registrar’s Office, put in the drop box in the office vestibule, or through the mail. If a resident received a vote by mail absentee ballot but wants to vote in person (either during early voting or on Election Day), the resident needs to bring the mailed ballot package with them to surrender.
- Voter registration deadline is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 15
- Deadline to request a mailed absentee ballot is Friday, October 25
- Deadline for in-person early voting is 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 2. No voting takes place in the Registrar’s Office on Election Day. Voters will need to report to their assigned precinct on Election Day.
For more election-related information, go to the department’s page on the Botetourt County website at https://www.botetourtva.gov/403/Department-of-Elections-Voter-Registration.
~ Fincastle Herald staff report
