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 […]
Of the 3,743 voters whose absentee or mail-in ballots were rejected for some kind of deficiency, one number stands out: 10 were invalid because the voters were deceased. Yes, that’s right, the dead voted in Miami-Dade. Again. Sounds like an AMC movie of the week. If you remember, the 1997 Miami election was overturned because, […]
UPDATED: There will be a press conference at the Miami-Dade Elections Department at 4 p.m. Wednesday to demand that the Supervisor of Elections count these ballots and request they “address valid voter suppression and ballot collection concerns” in time for the Nov. 3 election. Among those who will be present: P.U.L.S.E., South Florida National Action […]
The use of absentee or mail-in ballots has always been a concern in Miami-Dade, where veteran campaign consultants have manipulated these votes, particularly with elderly voters, for years. But a month from our first election in the time of COVID19, the Aug. 18 absentee vote will likely break records. According to Deputy Supervisor of Elections […]