The deadline for absentee ballots for the February 9th election for school boards, Tulsa County treasurer Republican primary, Jenks bond vote and primary for Owasso City Council Ward 2 is February 2.

 There are votes for Tulsa Public Schools (Office 2); Collinsville Public Schools (Office 1); Owasso Public Schools (Office 1); Tulsa County Treasurer (Republican primary); Jenks School bond election; and Owasso City Council (Ward 2).

The GOP primary for Tulsa County Treasurer is between John M. Fothergill and Francis Joseph Hart, III. The winner of that primary will face Democrat Maria Sanchez on April 6.

Absentee ballot forms are available at the Election Board Office at 555 N. Denver or online at www.elections.ok.gov. Ballots must be in the hands of election board officials by 7 p.m. on election day to be counted.

Anyone can vote by absentee without giving a reason.

The temporary absentee ballot verification option – put in place due to the Chinese coronavirus – has expired, Freeman said. Senate Bill 210 was passed in 2020 and it gave Oklahoma voters the option to include a copy of their valid ID instead of a notarized or witnessed signature on their absentee ballot affidavit.

Certain parts of that bill were only good in for the 2020 presidential election and it expired in December.

Freeman said standard absentee ballot affidavits must be notarized to be counted. Physically incapacitated people can have their ballots’s signature witnessed by two people.