| Show PRIMARY ABSENTEE VOTES absentee ballots may be accepted in both the primary and runoff run off elections to be held this year for the first time under the new direct primary law it Is held by attorney general joseph chez in an opinion submitted monday to theodore bonn bohn county attorney of beaver county mr chez said that although absentee voting is not mentioned specifically elf icalla in the direct primary law there Is s a provision that all of the laws relating to general elections shall apply in the primary elections unless otherwise specified I 1 there is only one conclusion that can be reached he said and that Is that the legislature intended that absentee ballots may be used in the direct primary and runoff run off primary elections |