Tens of thousands of Florida voters are using drop boxes to deliver mail ballots – By Aaron Leibowitz and Allison Ross (Miami Herald) / Oct 20 2020
Record numbers of Florida residents turned out Monday for the first day of in-person early voting, in some cases contending with long lines and maskless voters to ensure their vote was counted. But tens of thousands of others took a different approach: bringing their vote-by-mail ballots directly to drop boxes stationed at early voting sites.
In Miami-Dade County, elections officials collected 27,765 ballots at the drop boxes Monday, which were set up at all 33 early voting sites. There were more dropped-off ballots on Monday than in the entire August primary, when a total of 19,055 Miami-Dade voters used the county’s expanded drop-off system over the 14 days of early voting.
Put another way: Nearly 10% of Miami-Dade voters who have already voted by mail did so via the drop boxes on Monday. The county had tallied about 233,000 mail votes as of Monday morning, according to state data, on pace to shatter Miami-Dade’s 2016 vote-by-mail total of 305,000. That tally doesn’t include the drop box totals from Monday, which will be reflected in state data Wednesday.
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