Absentee ballots go out with little time to mail them back in Coral Gables

Absentee ballots go out with little time to mail them back in Coral Gables
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Voters can take them to the early voting drop box

Coral Gables voters will start getting vote-by-mail or absentee ballots for the runoff election beginning on Tuesday, one week before Election Day.

Miami-Dade Elections Deputy Supervisor Suzy Trutie said that 13,082 ballots were mailed to voters on Monday.

That provides very little turn around time if someone wants to return it that way. And anybody who waits until after the debate Wednesday could really be taking a chance their ballot doesn’t arrive in time.

Trutie said that municipalities are the ones that set the runoff timetable and that the county started working on printing the ballots immediately after the April 13 results.

“That Tuesday night we started preparing the ballot,” she said.

Ladra suggests that anyone who isn’t ready to vote immediately and put their ballots right back in the mailbox wait until the weekend’s early voting when there will be a drop box at the library.

Por si las moscas.

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