vote by mail

Florida's vote count was clear-cut, but that's not the case in other part of the country.

The governor sees Florida as a model for other states.

Rules in several key states don't allow election workers to begin processing or counting mail-in ballots until Election Day, so the winners may not be declared for days.

Voters only have a couple more days to cast their early votes. Here's a map of where and when they can do so across the greater Tampa Bay region.

She said that while there’s typically a lot of litigation in an election year, this time there’s a ‘bumper crop’ because of COVID-19.

Election experts say there is no longer enough time to ensure ballots sent through the mail will be delivered in time. They're encouraging voters to deliver their ballots by hand or vote in person.

Americans have cast 93 million early ballots as of Sunday afternoon, putting the 2020 election on track for historic levels of voter turnout.

Election supervisors estimate that potentially 60% of the state's registered voters will have already cast their ballots before Nov. 3. In 1992, 83% turned out.

Pinellas County has mailed out more early ballots than ever before for this election day. But its early voting numbers trailed other area counties — and it may be because it has only five such sites in the entire county.

Less than two weeks before the Nov. 3 election, Republicans have surpassed Democrats by more than 41,000 early ballots as sites opened this week across the state.

The state of Florida has created a website to help voters navigate this year’s election, given the increase in demand for Early Voting and Vote-by-Mail.

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