The phrase "absentee polling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of voting by individuals who are unable to physically attend a polling place on election day.
Example: "Many voters opted for absentee polling to ensure their voices were heard despite being out of town on election day."
Alternatives: "absentee voting" or "mail-in voting".
BAGHDAD — Streams of Iranian pilgrims, many of them women wrapped in the gray and white cloaks favored by Persians, made a special stop on Friday to vote at absentee polling places in the shadow of Iraq's most renowned Shiite shrines in Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala and Samarra.
Every election-watcher knows that 2012 Presidential election absentee ballots were counted at absentee polling stations by absentee voting-precinct officials — but did these ballots count if they went to an absentee candidate?
Further complicating the calculations are more than 200,000 paper ballots that have yet to be counted -- those filed by absentee voters, or at polling places where machines did not work or voters' names were not in the poll books.
Golos, Russia's most prominent election monitoring group, documented 45 cases of "carousel voting," in which groups of voters using absentee ballots are shuttled between polling places to vote repeatedly.
By 8 p.m. Sunday, 2,058 calls had come in, with many complaints about the misuse of absentee ballots, monitors barred from polling places and sightings of young people being bused from one polling station to another to vote more than once.
These included police intimidation, registered voters whose names mysteriously disappeared from the rolls, thousands of "lost" absentee ballots, persistent disinformation about polling sites, as well as voters who repeatedly pressed John Kerry's name on the touch screens, only to have George W. Bush's appear.
Although the Alaska result remains tenuous (the Associated Press has not yet called, as of this writing, due to an estimated 25,000 or more uncounted absentee ballots), polls in many recent elections overstated Democratic performance.
In neighbouring Syria, Jordan and Iran, security around polling stations for Iraqi absentee voters was tight.
In fact, 22percentt of all Americans are expected to vote this year by absentee ballot or by going to a polling place early, according to the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey.
One of Mr. Yushchenko's lawyers, Yuri A. Karmazin, cited a series of violations at polling stations, including irregularities with absentee ballots and cases of multiple voting.
For voters who did not mail in their absentee ballots, Republican operatives arranged rides to polling places in the days before the election.
