Johnson County Clerk

Military personnel, their dependents, and citizens who live overseas (temporarily or indefinitely) are permitted to cast an absentee ballot in one of the following ways:

• The voter may vote on the voting machine in the County Clerk’s office if the voter will be absent from the county on Election Day, or if the voter learns he/she will be confined to a base within the county on Election Day.
• Voters who will be out of the county may apply for a mail-in ballot that will be sent to the voters out of county address, their fax or email address at the voter’s request. A Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) may be used to make this request. It can be found at www.fvap.gov and it must reach us seven (7) days prior to the election. The ballot must be returned to our office by mail no later than Election Day.

You may obtain a paper absentee ballot if you are unable to get to the polls on election day, and you meet any one of the following requirements:

• due to advanced age, disability, illness or medical emergency
• you are a member of the Armed forces
• you are the dependent of a member of the Armed forces
• you are a U. S. citizen residing overseas
• you are a student attending school outside the county of your voter registration
• you temporarily reside outside the state but are still eligible to vote in Kentucky
• you are incarcerated in jail and have been charged but not convicted of a crime

The deadline for applying for a paper absentee ballot is 7 days before an election. You may apply for a paper absentee ballot due to a medical emergency up to the day of the election. You may request an application in person, by mail, by phone, or by fax.

If you are going to be out of the county on election day and you do not qualify for a paper absentee ballot (as listed above), you may vote in the County Clerk’s office any of the 21 business days preceding the election.