There is still time to request an absentee/mail-in ballot
Monday was the last day to register to vote for the August 20 primary election, which is also the county election for a lot of races that could be decided by a 50% plus one vote.
According to the Miami-Dade Elections Department, there are almost 1.5 million voters registered in the county. Of those, a majority are still Democrats, with 512,800 compared to fewer than 450,000 Republicans and almost 470,000 NPA or independent voters.
Of the 1.5 million, more than 886,000 are Hispanic, according to the last report by the elections department published at 10:45 a.m. July 1. The department’s No. 2 says we won’t know how many more people registered through the state until the end of the month.
Officials and candidates worry that the turnout will be historically low this year, perhaps under 25%, much of that due to the fact that fewer people have gotten absentee or mail-in ballots, as they are now called. About 215,000 absentee ballots went out to voters on July 11. That number has gone up to 226,000 as of Monday, said Deputy Supervisor of Elections Roberto Rodriguez.
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“It’s still pretty low compared to four years ago,” added Rodriguez. That’s for sure.
The department mailed out 392,000 absentee ballots for the August 2022 primary. That’s a gap of more than 150,000 voters. In the 2020 primary, the department sent out 332,000 absentee or mail-in ballots. For the November 2020 general, more than half a million mail-in ballots were sent to voters.
Even voters who submitted ABs or mail-in ballots in 2022 have to request it again. Florida legislators changed a law 2022 that caused all vote-by-mail requests to expire on Dec. 31 of that year. In Miami-Dade, 438,000 voters were purged from the vote-by-mail ballot request list.
Everyone had to request one again. And get ready to do it again in two years. Democrats have said this is voter suppression.
Voters who have not yet requested an absentee ballot for next month’s primary have until 5 p.m. Aug. 8 to do so. Here’s how:
- Online via the Elections Department website
- By phone at 305-499-8444
- By mail to 2700 NW 87 Ave., Miami, FL 33172
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Regardless of turnout, I hope our electorate has enough sense not to vote for 2X judicial reject Jason Bloch.
” Florida is banning the access by children of certain books”
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Florida rejects some social studies textbooks and pushes publishers to change others”
Florida education officials have rejected dozens of social studies textbooks amid an ongoing effort by the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to influence what’s taught in the state’s public schools.
The list of rejected materials included books on U.S. history, the Holocaust, psychology and more. Officials said the books did not meet state standards, but it’s unclear specifically why they were not approved.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175232763/desantis-florida-textbooks-social-studies-schools
I fully agree with Ed Vidal. Florida is not banning books. Florida is banning the access by children of certain books. The same way, we ban the access to alcoholic beverages to children, and we ban the right to drive a motor vehicle, Florida bans those books with topics not appropriate for children. It seems to me that Ladra, an accomplished journalist, is falling under the progressive rhetoric, and failing to follow logic and common sense in her arguments.
In addition to free speech, let’s have common sense in the arguments.
PS: regarding the topic of ‘voter supression’: if we ask of proof of citizenship to get a passport, why should not ask for proof of citizenship to vote in the elections ?
I would encourage Ladra and John Dolson to reflect on my points above, putting aside your passions and emotions, and re visit your statements with a practical and common sense approach.
To Ed Vidal: Don’t be ridiculous.
My parents came to this country from Cuba so that we could freely express our opinions, even if they are against government officials and/or policies. And we respect everyone’s right to do so. It always amazes me when fellow Cuban Americans tell people they disagree with to leave the country or call them communists. Freedom of speech means for everyone, even those you disagree with.
To John Dodson: I agree with you.
Love, Ladra
To John Dolson: I suggest that you emigrate to Cuba to live under a more enlightened and progressive government.
Vote-By-Mail is rife with fraud.
Vote in person during early voting. Don’t wait until Election Day, and don’t trust the U.S. Postal Service.
They are even less trustworthy than the U.S. Secret Service!
Desanti calls us “the free state of Florida”. It is anything but that. Suppression of thought, gender, race, book banning, the right of women to control their bodies; legislation designed to roll us back to the 1950’s. This is pure voter suppression. Make it hard to vote. Mail in voting allows time to look carefully at candidates, issues on the ballot and get it right. We are a sad state.