Less than a week remains for registered voters in Kingfisher County to apply for absentee ballots to be mailed to them for the June 30 election, reminds Kingfisher County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts.

Applications for absentee ballots must be received by the County Election Board no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, to be processed in time for the election.

The election will cover primaries for the following:

• State officers - Corporation commissioner

• Congressional officers - United States senator (democrat and republican)

• District legislative officers - State representative, District 59 (republican)

That’s also the election in which Kingfisher’s new mayor and a city commissioner will be elected.

Roxie Alexander and Joy Ludwig are running for mayor while Kyle Mecklenburg and Richard R. Reynolds are in the running for commissioner.

There will also be school board elections in Okarche as well as Cimarron, which has registered voters in its school district who reside in the county.

Absentee voters may apply in person at the County Election Board office or may send their applications by mail, fax, or e-mail.

An online version of the form may be filled out and submitted electronically at www.elections.ok.gov.

Any registered voter eligible to vote in the election may vote by absentee ballot without stating a reason, Butts said, however absentee voters can activate certain special conditions in the following circumstances:

• Registered voters who are physically incapacitated and voters who care for physically incapacitated persons who cannot be left unattended may apply for absentee ballots only by mail, fax, e-mail, online or via an agent who is at least 16 years of age and who is not employed by or related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity to any person whose name appears on the ballot.

• Registered voters who are confined to nursing homes in the county may apply by mail, by fax, by e-mail, online or via an agent who is at least 16 years of age and who is not employed by or related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity to any person whose name appears on the ballot.

• Military personnel, residents of Kingfisher County living overseas, and the spouses and dependents of each group may apply only by mail, by fax, or by e-mail. For more information and instructions, military and overseas voters may visit the Federal Voting Assistance Program website: www.fvap.gov/oklahoma.

For more information on absentee voting, contact the County Election Board at 101 S. Main St., Room 8. The telephone number is 405-375-3895. The County Election Board’s fax number is 405-375-5962.

For additional election-related information, visit: www.elections.ok.gov.