Fewer absentee or mail-in ballots go out in Miami-Dade for August ’24 primary

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Fewer absentee or mail-in ballots go out in Miami-Dade for August ’24 primary
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Want to get yours? Here’s how

Check your mailbox for the next few days. The Miami-Dade Elections Department on Thursday will mail about 215,000 vote-by-mail or absentee ballots to county voters with a request on file for the Aug. 20 primary election.

That’s a significant drop from the August 2022 primary, when the initial mailing was 392,000 absentee ballots, according to Roberto Rodriguez, deputy supervisor of elections. 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.

Voters who have not yet requested one for next month’s primary have until 5 p.m. Aug. 8 to do so. Here’s how:

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.

Read related: Wanna vote by mail in Miami special election? Gotta request your ballot

Ballots must be received by the elections department by 7 p.m. Aug. 20. They can be sent by mail — no postage necessary — or placed in a secure ballot box at any of the 23 early voting locations.

Early voting starts Aug. 5.

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7 Responses to "Fewer absentee or mail-in ballots go out in Miami-Dade for August ’24 primary"

  4. An election is coming; an election is coming! I received five campaign flyers in today’s mail. One for La Alcadesa bragging about cutting our taxes (mine went up). One for Judge Bloch, proud to have been appointed by Rick Scott. Surprisingly only one for Sheriff, for Ernie Rodriguez with a picture of Trump giving a Thumbs Up. And two for tax collector, both with pictures next to Trump, and both against tax increases (that I don’t think the office can influence) Brian Calvo and Dariel Fernandez. The printers and post office love election flyer season!

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  6. According to the Jimmy Carter-James Baker commission on election procedures in 2005, formed after the hanging chads in the election of 2000, Vote-By-Mail is the most likely form of electoral cheating. VBM is rife with fraud.

    Vote in person and during early voting. Don’t wait until Election Day, and don’t trust the United States Postal Service!

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