Can’t wait to cast your municipal election ballot? Good news — today you can.
Absentee voting for the Oct. 4 municipal election begins today. Registered voters can cast absentee in-person ballots at two Juneau locations now through Oct. 3.
They are:
• City Hall Assembly Chambers, weekdays 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Mendenhall Mall Annex, weekdays 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m.
Voters may cast an absentee ballot for any reason at the locations listed above. Voters may also cast a by-mail ballot, which can be obtained at the city clerk’s office or online at juneau.org/clerk/elections. By-mail ballots must be turned in by Sept. 27.
Absentee voting has become an increasingly popular method in Juneau over the last several years. During the 2015 municipal election, about 17 percent of the 5,815 ballots cast were absentee, an increase of 2 percent over the previous year.
In addition to filling two school board and three Assembly seats, voters will be asked to decide the future of three propositions that will appear on this year’s ballot.
Proposition 1 asks voters to decide on levying an additional 3 percent tax on the sale of marijuana and marijuana products; Proposition 2 asks voters if they want to renew the temporary 3 percent areawide sales tax for five more years beginning July 1, 2017; and Proposition 3 asks if voters want to make the temporary 3 percent sales tax permanent beginning July 1, 2022.
Correction: A previous version of this article gave the wrong date of the election. It has been corrected.
