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General Election
9 November 2008, from 8 in the morning until 8 at night
Polling locations
Go to www.cityofportsmouth.com/cityclerk/documents/STREETLIST.pdf
for a printable list of streets and ward assignments.
Note the change to ward 4 polling location - no longer Dondero School!
- Ward One - New Franklin School - Franklin Drive
- Off Woodbury Avenue *north), between Anchorage and Best Inns next to Rt 1
Bypass above the traffic circle
- Ward Two - Middle/Junior High School - Parrott Avenue
- On the South Mill Pond south of Pleasant St; between Portsmouth District
Court and the Public Library
- Ward Three - Sherburne School - Sherburne Road
- From Route 33, turn toward hospital at traffic light intersection, turn left
(west) onto old Greenland Rd then right onto Sherburne Rd
From Route 1 & Rte 1 Bypass, take Borthwick Avenue to the end, keep right
onto old Greenland Rd rather than going to traffic light
- Ward Four - Portsmouth High School
- Andrew Jarvis off Lafayette Rd
- Ward Five - Little Harbour School - Clough Drive
- Off South St (turn east) between Junkins Ave (City Hall) and Miller Ave (South
Cemetery)
Absentee ballots
From the Portsmouth City Clerk's web site:
Criteria for receiving absentee ballots
There are four reasons
available under the law for individuals to receive an absentee ballot. Commuters
please read information under Absence from City.
- Absence from City
- A person is unable to appear at any time during polling hours at polling
place because they will be working on election day
or will be otherwise absent on election day from the city and will be unable to
vote in person.
- Absence Because of Religious Observance
- A person is observing a religious commitment which prevents them from voting
in person.
- Physical Disability
- A person is unable to vote in person due to a physical disability.
- Absence due to Employment
- A person at any time during polling hours cannot appear because of an
employment obligation requires them to remain physically at work, or to be in
transit to or from work from the time the polls open until after the time the
polls close.
Go to www.cityofportsmouth.com/cityclerk/AbsenteeBallotApplicationsfor2008.pdf
for a printable application. Any note that contains the details of the form is
acceptable. Specify a party choice (if an undeclared/independent) for a primary.
Be sure to complete and sign the request with the name you used to register.
The City Clerk will send back a standard ballot and a return "affidavit"
envelope. The affidfavit repeats that you are entitled to vote absentee. Be sure
to sign the ballot return affidavit envelope with the same signature used on the
request. Ballots cannot be counted unless signatures are all present and match.
See a sample ballot for the primary at www.cityofportsmouth.com/cityclerk/voteinfo.htm#sample
