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 […]