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Listen: Coutrney Bailey-Kanelos is the Registrar of Voters for Sacramento County.and answers questions about ballots and voting. The first week of October ballots start going out The process is exactly the same, for absentee and mail-in. CA changed from the term “absentee” to “vote by mail” in 2007, as more than half of CA voters were permanent absentee voters and voters did not need an excuse to have a ballot automatically mailed to them.