Carmela Palanda and Chris Nyhan of South Portland look over their ballots after filling them out during absentee in person voting at city hall in South Portland Tuesday, October 11. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

The window for requesting an absentee ballot or voting early is now closed in Maine.

But it’s not too late to submit ballots that were already mailed out to voters.

Voters in possession of an absentee ballot who want to ensure that it gets counted are encouraged to drop it off at the local town office or deposit it in a secure ballot drop box, if available, by 8 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the Maine Secretary of State’s office.

Or, they can hold onto the ballot and just vote in person on Tuesday instead.

Don’t mail a ballot at this point. The U.S. Post Office only guarantees delivery of absentee ballots if they are mailed at least a week before the election. And that window has already passed.

For more information about absentee voting, visit the Secretary of State’s website.