More than 670,000 of the 2.1 million requested absentee ballots have been returned with three weeks to go before election day, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced on Tuesday.
The approximately 31 percent of voters who requested an absentee and have returned it is slightly less than the 34 percent who had returned ballots three weeks from the 2020 election.
As of October 15, a total of 2,133,272 voters have requested an absentee ballot or received a ballot after joining the?permanent absentee ballot list. So far, 672,585 voters have returned their completed absentee ballot to be counted. A breakdown of absentee ballot requests and returns by jurisdiction is available online.
In 2020, 2,852,495 voters requested or received absentee ballots 21 days before the election and 977,694 had returned the completed ballots.
