Almost 100,000 absentee ballots will be mailed Tuesday to voters in three of the bigger cities of Miami-Dade: Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah.
Election Day is Nov. 2 but local races have seen a growing number of vote-by-mail ballots every year and these have become crucial to all campaigns. Increasingly, the race is over by the time the ABs are counted.
In Miami, there are 56,537 requests on file for absentee ballots, said Suzy Trutie, deputy supervisor of the Miami-Dade Elections Department. Hialeah has 25,283 and Miami Beach has 15,387, she said.
Wonder how many of those absentee ballots will be legitimate? South Florida has a history of absentee ballot fraud and one mayoral candidate in Hialeah, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo, had a county district aide arrested after she stashed bunches of ballots in the trunk of her car. Bovo, however, was never charged with anything.
Know more: Commissioner Bovo’s office was boletero central
Ladra predicts there will be hundreds of thousands of campaign mailers landing in mailboxes between Tuesday and Friday.
The last day to request a vote-by-mail or absentee ballot is Saturday, October 23, 2021. All VBM ballots must be back at the elections department by 7 p.m. on Election Day Nov. 2.
Voters can also leave them at drop boxes located at all early voting locations.
Miami Beach has the longest early voting period, two whole weeks beginning Oct. 18 and ending on Halloween. There will only be two precincts open to vote early, City Hall and the North Shore Branch library.
Voters in Miami have more options for locations with seven early voting sites, but less time, as early voting there starts Oct. 23. Hialeah voters have the least time, as early voting starts Oct. 25 in the City of Progress.
For hours and locations, go to the county’s website here.
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