Jamestown  (CSi)  Voters in Jamestown and Stutsman County on June 9 for all elections, will not have a physical polling location to enforce social distancing, following Governor Doug Burgum’s executive order on March 13th, that gave  permission to counties to authorize mail-in ballot elections.

Stutsman County Commissioners unanimously approved only mail-in balloting.

During a call-in meeting Wednesday with   Stutsman County Auditor and COO Nicole Meland and North Dakota Secretary of State, Al Jaeger, along with other county officials in the state, she elaborated her concerns with absentee balloting.

She says, the North Dakota secretary of state’s office would send out ballot applications to people based on past voting records and driver’s license records.

Stutsman County  responsible for mailing ballots to the voters who request a ballot.

Candidates have until 4-p.m., April 6 to file their petitions.

More information on mail-in voting will be forthcoming.

North Dakota secretary of state’s office would send out ballot applications to people based on past voting records and driver’s license records.  Stutsman County would be responsible for mailing ballots to the voters who request a ballot.

Plans include providing  a dropbox for voters to drop off the ballots, with the deadline for placing ballots in the dropbox to be determined. Mailing the ballots to the county does require the voter to pay postage costs.