Absentee/Early Voting

Absentee voting by mail is available through the Ramsey County Elections Office.

Download the mail-in absentee ballot application.

For additional languages or formats, call 1-877-600-8683

Submit your completed absentee ballot application directly to the Ramsey County Elections Office by mail, fax, email or online: 

Mail:
Ramsey County Elections
P.O.Box 64098
St. Paul, MN 55164

Fax: 651-266-2177

Online 

Email: elections@co.ramsey.mn.us 

In addition to returning your absentee ballot by mail, Maplewood residents can return their mailed ballots at City Hall during regular business hours from 8:00am to 4:30pm. The absentee ballot must be hand-delivered directly to an election official inside the building for verification, otherwise, it will not be accepted. The City of Maplewood does not have a ballot drop off box. 

On Election Day ballots returned in person to City Hall must be hand delivered by 8:00pm in order to be counted. 

Additional ballot return locations will also open for Maplewood residents through Ramsey County. For the locations and hours please visit Ramsey County Elections. 

For more information about voting absentee by mail please visit the Ramsey County Elections.

Track your absentee ballot

Voters living temporarily or permanently overseas and those serving in the military (including their spouses and dependents) or attending a military academy,  use a special process to vote absentee directly through the Ramsey County Elections Office. 

For more information about the process please visit the Ramsey County Elections.

You may designate an individual (agent) to pick up and return your absentee ballot. This is available only during the last 7 days before election. 

To qualify for an agent pick up and delivery you have to:

•  Be a patient in a hospital, residential treatment center or nursing home
• Resident of a group home
• Resident of a battered women's shelter
• Resident of an assisted living facility
• Voter with a disability
• Voter who would have difficulty getting to the polls because of incapacitating health reasons. 

To qualify as an agent, an agent must: 

• Have a pre-existing relationship with you
• Is at least 18 years old
• Is not a candidate in the election 

Download an Agent Delivery Package (designation form and absentee ballot application)

For additional languages or formats, call 1-877-600-8683

Complete both and have your agent bring the completed forms to City Hall to pick up your ballot. Your voted ballot must be returned by your agent to City Hall by 8:00 pm on Election Day in order to be counted.