Why your absentee ballot costs more to mail this year

Voting by mail appears to be popular again this election cycle. Hamilton County is reporting more than 65,000 requests for absentee ballots, according to the deputy director of elections. Alex Linser says that's about on par with 2018, the last mid-term election, which was a record-breaker. Linser says it will cost more to send these ballots in, though.

“Due to the weight of the ballots this year — it’s a two-page ballot in every precinct in Hamilton County — it takes $0.84 to mail your ballot back to the Board of Elections,” he says. “So, if you’re using Forever stamps, that’s two stamps.”

Linser says if you already mailed it with only one stamp, don't worry. “It is the policy of the U.S. Postal Service to still deliver ballots if they have insufficient postage,” he says.