Broward County starts sending mail ballots to voters. Miami-Dade is next week

[RandySF]

The Nov. 3 election is 40 days away. But in an unprecedented year for voting by mail, Thursday marks a critical point for Florida as county elections offices begin sending out hundreds of thousands of domestic ballots through the U.S. Postal Service.

In Broward County, USPS trailer trucks will pick up about 250,000 vote-by-mail ballots from the county’s Voting Equipment Center in Lauderhill on Thursday morning. Officials expect another 200,000 to go out in the following three days.

With more than 450,000 requests for vote-by-mail ballots so far, Broward voters are shattering the county’s previous record. In the 2016 general election, the county mailed out just over 291,000 such ballots

This year’s number will continue to grow: Florida’s deadline to request a mail ballot is Oct. 24 at 5 p.m.

Across South Florida, mail voters will have alternatives to the USPS amid concerns about cuts to the agency and delayed delivery times.



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article245891710.html#storylink=cpy

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Received mine today in Broward

[In It to Win It]

4. I'm eager! I was hoping to get mine today. I just checked my mailbox... and nothing yet

I'm hoping I get it on Monday

[MaryMagdaline]

6. I hope you do!

[NightWatcher]

2. Got mine in Duuuuuval. If I drop dead, my fam will get it in the mail. I've done my part.

[Blue_true]

7. What is the point of holding on to it?

I just don’t understand the logic of not immediately filling it out properly and getting it back in the mail.

My county sent mail-in ballots out Friday. I will get one even though I indicated that I wanted to vote in person. I found out too late on Friday to call the County Registrar’s office. I will do that first thing on Monday. If I can simply walk in to early voting with the ballot, surrender it and get an in person ballot to vote, then I plan to do that. But if I have to jump through hoops to get an in person ballot, or can only vote provisionally, then I plan to turn the mail-in ballot around as soon as I get it in my mailbox. I won’t wait and have some psycho invalidate my late mailed ballot like happed with the MAGABomber in 2018.

[Blue_true]

3. My Florida County sent mail-in ballots out on Friday. nt

[Submariner]

5. Will Bloomberg's Biden blitz for the Latino vote reach them before they vote?

Let's hope so at this point in the chaos of 2020.