Whether a voter wants to look over the ballot at home and mail it in or is ready to apply and vote in one visit to the courthouse, there is a deadline looming.

The deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot for the Nov. 2 election is Tuesday, Oct. 26.

The ballots may be taken to the Voter Registration office at the courthouse any time through 8 p.m. on Election Day, but the application must be in in a little over a week.

“If a voter wants to come in and vote at the counter, they’re more than welcome to do so,” Deputy Director of Elections Krystle Ransom said. “They will simply fill out an absentee or mail-in ballot application and will be given a ballot on the spot.”

“They can then take it with them to vote it or vote in on site, seal it, and it will then be opened on Election Day,” Ransom said.

“This is still not considered ‘early voting,’ it is the same process if the voter were to apply online and have their ballot mailed to them.”

“We can only hand out ballot applications until Oct. 26,” she said.

So far, the office has received and processed over 2,000 applications and sent out the corresponding ballots.

“The numbers as of right now are 2,058 ballots sent out and 742 returned,” Ransom said Wednesday.

“If a voter does not plan on returning their ballot and chooses to vote at the polls, we want to remind them to take their unvoted ballot to the polls to surrender it,” she said. “If they do not, but were issued a ballot, they will need to vote provisionally. If the voter thinks they applied for a ballot and did not receive one we encourage them to call our office.”

The county is also in need of some poll workers.

“As of today Pittsfield is completely vacant and we could also use one or two workers in each of the following precincts: Conewango 1 and 2, Warren West, Warren North, and Warren South.”

Anyone interested in those positions is encouraged to contact Ransom at (814) 728-3406.