If you still have an absentee vote-by-mail ballot at home — even if you’ve filled it out and signed the envelope — it’s probably too late to send it through the postal service.
But you can drop it off at any of the 33 early voting sites through Sunday.
That’s what Ladra did this week. It took less than five minutes at the Westchester Regional Library, where a Miami-Dade Elections worker took it and put it into the drop box in front of my eyes. I’ve had a chance since then to track my ballot on the county’s website and know it’s been counted.
You could take a chance with the mail — if your vote is not that important to you. Sure, it might get there on time. But it might not. The ballots have to be there by Tuesday, not be postmarked by Tuesday. In August, more than 3,000 vote-by-mail ballots were rejected because they arrived late.
More than 800,000 Miami-Dade voters have already cast ballots either by mail or at early voting locations, according to the Florida Division of Elections. Of those, 433,235 have returned their vote-by-mail absentee ballots and 375,289 voted early starting Oct. 19.
Read related: More than half a mil Miami-Dade vote-by-mail, absentee ballots favor Dems
There have been 336,578 Democrats and 253,308 Republicans, but that’s because Dems almost doubled GOP voters in vote-by-mail ballots. Republican voters have done better in early voting, 141,356 to 134,345, and are closing the gap.
But there are still 236,171 vote-by-mail ABs that have not been returned. Of those, 97,676 are in the hands of Democrat voters and 61,657 are with Republicans.
And let’s not forget the voters with no party affiliation. So far, 218,638 of them have cast ballots. Another 76,838 still have ballots out.
What are you people waiting for? You don’t even have to get out of your car.
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