Look in your mailbox. If you’re one of the people who get absentee or vote-by-mail ballots from the Miami-Dade Elections Department, you could be getting one this week. At least 260,000 went out Monday. That’s less than half of the 530,000 ballots mailed out for the 2020 general in just the first mailing, according to […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new law wipes out standing AB requests every two years There are city of Miami voters who are waiting for absentee or mail-in ballots in the special election this month to fill the vacancy in District 2. Only they won’t get it if they don’t ask. Only a third of the typical number of […]
Early voting starts Monday — and so does the policing. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced on Thursday that she would activate the Elections Response Team and Voter Protection Hotline to ensure that early voting sites remain free of any impropriety or illegal activity. “Law enforcement will be available to make sure that voting […]
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 […]
A Florida Senate bill “moving at the speed of light” would purge the permanent vote-by-mail request lists in every county by July — and could disenfranchise close to 100,000 Miami-Dade voters with elections this year in Virginia Gardens, Homestead, Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. Not so fast, said the Miami-Dade Commission, which on Tuesday passed […]
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. […]
Why are people hanging on to their ballots? Of the 627,484 Miami-Dade voters who had absentee or vote-by-mail ballots mailed to them as of Wednesday, a little more than 142,000 have mailed them back. That means that more than three times as many — a total of almost half a million — are still sitting […]
The Miami-Dade Elections Department mailed out 530,000 absentee or vote-by-mail ballots to voters Thursday and were poised to send another 40K in coming days — that’s more than the 480K mailed out for the record-setting Aug. 18 primary, which puts us on course for another historic turnout. And, according to figures provided by the Miami-Dade […]