PIERCE COUNTY: VOTING BY ABSENTEE BALLOT

Any qualified elector who is unable or unwilling to appear at the polling place on election day may request to vote an absentee ballot. A qualified elector is any U.S. citizen, who will be 18 years of age or older on election day, who has resided in the ward or municipality where he or she wishes to vote for at least 28 consecutive days before the election. The elector must also be registered in order to receive an absentee ballot.

TO OBTAIN AN ABSENTEE BALLOT YOU MUST MAKE A REQUEST IN WRITING.

Contact your municipal clerk and request that an application for an absentee ballot be sent to you for the primary or election or both. You may also request an absentee ballot by letter. Your written request must list your voting address within the municipality where you wish to vote, the address where the absentee ballot should be sent, if different, and your signature.

Special absentee voting application provisions apply to electors who are indefinitely confined to home or a care facility, in the military, hospitalized, or serving as a sequestered juror. If this applies to you, contact the municipal clerk.

You can also personally go to the clerk’s office or other specified location, complete a written application, and vote an absentee ballot during the hours specified for casting an absentee ballot.

The deadline for making application to vote absentee by mail is 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2012.

Military Electors should contact the municipal clerk regarding the deadlines for requesting or submitting an absentee ballot.

The first day to vote an absentee ballot in the Clerk's Office is Monday, October 22, 2012.

The deadline for voting an absentee ballot in the clerk’s office is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 2, 2012.

All voted ballots must be returned to the municipal clerk so the clerk can deliver them to the proper polling place or counting location before the polls close on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

Any ballots received after the polls close will be counted by the Board of Canvassers if postmarked by Election Day and received no later than 4:00 p.m. on the Friday following the Election.

See the list below for the Clerk names, addresses and phone numbers of the towns and villages of Pierce County to contact for an Absentee ballot.

Town of Diamond Bluff

Bob Schlichting, Clerk

W9166 290th Ave., Hager City, WI 54014

715-792-2526

Town of Ellsworth

Phyllis Beastrom, Clerk

W6244 410th Ave., Ellsworth, WI 54011

715-273-5847

Village of Ellsworth

Peggy A. Nelson, Clerk

130 N. Chestnut St., Ellsworth, WI 54011

715- 273-4742

Hours: M-F 8 a.m.-4 :30p.m.

Town of El Paso

Melanie Schoepp, Clerk

N5325 450th St., Ellsworth, WI 54011

715-273-4811

Village of Plum City

Michele Burg, Clerk

501 Main St. PO Box 207, Plum City, WI 54761

715-647-2612

Town of Union

Monica Krings, Clerk

N3474 50th St., Arkansaw, WI 54721

715-647-2168

Town of Hartland

Jolene Koopman, Clerk

W6170 Co. Rd. EE, Bay City, WI 54723

715-594-3173

Town of Isabelle

Julie Erickson

W7187 135th Ave., Bay City, WI 54723

715-792-2008

Town of Maiden Rock

Darla Pittman, Clerk

N1575 35th St., Plum City, WI 54761

715-647-3953

Village of Maiden Rock

Shirley Gilles, Clerk

P.O.Box 186, Maiden Rock, WI 54750

715-448-2205

Town of Martell

Janice Swanson, Clerk

N6665 610th St., Beldenville, WI 54003

715-273-3128

Town of Rock Elm

Tammy Waltz, Clerk

W2253 Co. Rd. HH, Elmwood, WI 54740

715-639-3507

Village of Bay City

Kay Beder, Clerk

P.O. Box 9, Bay City, WI 54723

715-594-3168

Town of Salem

Lynette Traynor,Clerk

W2801 230th Ave., Maiden Rock, WI 54750

715-448-4352

Town of Trenton

Steve Thoms, Clerk

W8074 147th Ave., Hager City, WI 54014

715-792-5218

Town of Trimbelle

Mary J. Kees, Clerk

W9115 501st. Ave., Ellsworth, WI 54011

715-273-5860

Town of Spring Lake

Donna Borgschatz, Clerk

W2294 Co. Rd G, PO Box 178, Spring Valley, WI 54767

715-639-2110

(Pub. 10/10/12)

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