Absentee ballots can be requested by mail, or in person with Ramsey residents able to vote in Ramsey or at the County Center in Anoka, first floor, elections office.
I voted yesterday at City Hall. The reception desk is where you get a ballot, and they have the special marking pens and all. It is good that no photo-ID requirement exists, you can give final digits or a social security number or a drivers' license code but you need something by way of identification that way, and more beyond what already is in place would be unnecessarily burdensome.
But you do not need it. Reason prevails for now. In Ramsey, ballots are printed and available, by Ward/Precinct; mine being Ward 2 Precinct 2. I would post a sample ballot and link, but that info is not available online yet. Two weeks before the primary it should be posted, but absentee voters have to fend without reviewing a sample ballot first, for now.
Any reader believing sample ballots are online, and knowing a link, should either email or post the info by leaving a comment.
Front side of the ballot, three columns one for each party, and you cannot cross between columns. I went DFL.
Back side of the ballot, county commissioner and for Ramsey wards having a primary there are ballot choices. Ward 2 has three candidates. There are four seeking the County Board District 1 seat.
