• you are a member of the United States Armed Service (or a spouse or dependent of a member of the armed forces);
• you are a student, instructor, or professor in an institution of higher learning located outside of your parish of registration, and you live outside of your parish, (or spouses or dependents accompanying and residing therewith);
• you are a minister, priest, rabbi, or other members of the clergy assigned to a religious post outside of your parish of registration (or spouses or dependents accompanying and residing therewith);
• you are or expect to be temporarily outside the territorial limits of the state or outside of your parish of registration during the early voting period and on election day;
• you have moved to a parish which is more than 100 miles from the parish where you are registered and it is too late to register in your new parish;
• you are involuntarily confined in an institution for mental treatment outside of your registration parish and you are not interdicted and not judicially declared incompetent;
• you reside outside the United States;
• you expect to be hospitalized on election day and either were hospitalized or expect to be hospitalized during the early voting period; or you did not learn that you would be hospitalized until after the early voting period expired; or you have been hospitalized and released but your physician has ordered you to remain in bed during the early voting period and on Election Day;
• you expect to be out of your precinct upon the waters of the state both during the early voting period and on election day because of your employment or occupation (e.g., working offshore);
• you are approved for the Special Handicap Program and are living at home, not in a nursing home;
• you are incarcerated in an institution inside or outside your parish of registration and are not under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony;
• you are 65 years of age or older; or
• you have a mobility impaired identification card issued by the office of motor vehicles (include a copy of mobility impaired i.d. card with your application).

Download and complete the Louisiana Absentee Ballot Application. Mail or hand-deliver your completed application to your Parish Registrar of Voters. Once they process it, they'll mail your ballot to you. Be sure to request your ballot before the deadline!

Your request for an absentee ballot will be rejected if:

• Your request for an absentee ballot was received too early; the earliest a request for an absentee ballot can be accepted is 60 days prior to the election.
• Your request for an absentee ballot was received too late; the request deadline is four days before election day.
• If you registered by mail and have not previously voted in the parish where you registered, you must vote in person either during the early voting period or at the precinct on election day.
• You requested an absentee ballot from a parish or district/precinct where you are not registered to vote.
• You registered after the voter registration books were closed 30 days prior to election day.
• Your request for an absentee ballot was incomplete.

You do not need to provide ID if you have already voted in person in your parish at least once. If you are a first time absentee voter, you may vote absentee in person between 7 and 14 days prior to the election, but you must provide a picture ID. If you are a first time voter, you may not vote by mail unless you registered to vote in person. If you registered to vote by mail, you must vote by absentee ballot in person between 7 and 14 days prior to the election.