All Absentee applications and ballots should be returned to:
Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Pickens County
222 McDaniel Ave Suite B-9
Pickens, SC 29671
Absentee by mail voting is a multi-step process. First, voters must request an absentee application. Second, voters will sign and return the application. Third, the voter registration office will mail a ballot. Fourth, voters will complete and return the ballot. Voters must return the signed absentee application by 5:00 p.m. on the 11th day prior to the election. Completed ballots must be returned to the Voter Registration & Elections Office no later than 7:00 p.m. on election day.
For more information on Absentee Voting, visit: https://www.scvotes.gov/absentee-voting
The Board of Voter Registration & Elections of Pickens County is responsible for facilitating absentee voting for all Federal, State, County, and Municipal elections within Pickens County, South Carolina. Absentee voting is not the “early voting” that you may have heard about on the news.
To vote absentee, you must be a registered voter and meet one of the following criteria:
- Persons with employment obligations that prevent them from voting during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period and during the hours polls are open on election day.
- Persons attending a sick or physically disabled person which prevents them from voting during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period and during the hours the polls are open on election day.
- Persons confined to jail or pretrial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial which prevents them from voting during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period and during the hours polls are open on election day.
- Persons who will be absent from their county of residence during early voting hours for the duration of the early voting period and during the hours the polls are open on election day.
- Persons with physical disabilities.
- Persons sixty-five years of age or older.
- Members of the Armed Forces and Merchant Marines of the United States, their spouses, and dependents residing with them.
- Persons admitted to a hospital as an emergency patient on the day of the election or within a four-day period before the election.
To Request an Application
- You can submit your request for an application as early as January 1 of the election year.
- Call, visit, or send your request by U.S. mail to 222 McDaniel Ave., B-9, Pickens, SC 29671.
- You must provide your name, date of birth, and last four digits of your Social Security Number.
- You will be mailed an application.