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The Quince Orchard Park Community Association will host a candidate debate Wednesday evening, October 24, from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. The debate will be held in the City Council chambers and televised live on cable channel 13. A video of the debate will be replayed daily on channel 13. The City’s website does not say if they will make the video available for replay online, but I don’t see why they wouldn’t.

Also note that, while it is too late to register to vote, it is not too late to apply for an absentee ballot, although it is getting pretty close. You do not need any specific reason to use the absentee ballot.

From the City’s website:

Any qualified (registered) voter is entitled to cast an absentee ballot.

Applications must contain the signature, printed name, the current legal residential address within the incorporated limits of the City, any mailing address different from the residential address of the applicant and, if applicable, his or her authorized agent.

Applications for absentee ballots may be picked up in person at City Hall during normal business hours, requested via telephone at 301-258-6310 or downloaded below thru November 6, 2007. Completed applications can be mailed or dropped off at City Hall, 31 South Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

After approval of the application, absentee ballots will be mailed to the absentee voter; however, absentee ballots cannot be mailed to the absentee voter or his/her authorized agent making application after the close of business on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007 (Sec. 6C-16(d) “Any absentee ballot that is not secured in person by the absentee voter or his authorized agent making application therefore shall be sent by first class mail to the approved applicant as expeditiously as possible, but not later than the close of business on the sixth day before the election”).

Residents who have been approved for an absentee ballot after WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007 must pick up their absentee ballot at City Hall during normal business hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Absentee ballots may be returned to City Hall in person up to and including the time of closing of the polls on Election Day, November 6, 2007. All mailed absentee ballots must be received by November 6, 2007.

• Download a 2007 Application for Absentee Ballot

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