- Voters who due to age, disability, or illness, will be unable to go to the polls on Election Day
- Voter who is a resident of Kentucky who is a covered voter as defined in KRS 117A.101—military personnel
- Military personnel confined to a military base on Election Day
- Students who temporarily reside outside the county
- Voters who temporarily reside outside the state but remain eligible to vote in this state (including vacationers)
- Voters who are in jail and have been charged with a crime, but not yet convicted of a crime
- Voters whose employment location requires them to be present from the county all hours and days absentee voting is conducted in the clerk’s office...
- Voters who are participants in the Office of the Secretary of State’s Address Confidentiality Program
Absentee Ballots may be requested by:
- Mail in a written request with name, address, phone number and signature
- Fax: 270-384-4805 with name, address, phone number and signature
- Email: Lisa.greer@ky.gov with name, and phone number
- Call: 270-384-2801
- Personally come in: Adair County Clerk’s Office, 424 Public Square, Columbia KY
- Residents of Kentucky who are covered voters as defined in defined in KRS 117A.010, who will be absent from the county on Election Day
- Students who temporarily reside outside the county of their residence;
- Individuals, and the spouse, who have surgery scheduled that will require hospitalization on Election Day;
- Individuals who temporarily reside outside the state but who are still eligible to vote in this state and who will be absent from the county on Election Day;
- Residents of Kentucky who are uniformed service voters as defined in KRS 117A.010 confined to a military base on Election Day and who learn of that confinement within seven (7) days or less of the election and are not eligible for a paper absentee ballot.
- A voter who is a pregnant woman in her last trimester of pregnancy at the time she wishes to vote.
- Precinct election officer appointed to serve in a precinct other than his/her own
- Alternate precinct officer
- County Board of Elections members, staff, and deputy county clerks.
- State Board of Elections staff