Absentee voting for primary underway in Big Horn County

Absentee voting has begun for the Aug. 20 primary election.
Big Horn County Clerk Lori Smallwood said her office had received 210 absentee ballot requests as of Monday and that they  would be going out in the mail Tuesday.
Any qualified Big Horn County elector that wishes to vote by absentee ballot may apply to the Big Horn County Clerk, for an absentee ballot either in person, by email, by telephone or by mail.
An ID is required to vote absentee in person or to pick up a ballot.
The 713 absentee ballots that were cast in the 2022 primary election represented just shy of 17% of the 4,279 total votes cast in Big Horn County.
The percentage was even higher back in 2020, when in the COVID-19 pandemic, 35% of the votes cast in the primary were absentee ballots.