Vote By Mail

You should check the status of your mail-in ballot to make sure your vote will count this year. Check your local Supervisor of Elections website to make sure there are no issues with your signature.

Several municipalities in Miami-Dade County will hold elections on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Here is some important information on early voting, precincts and vote-by-mail changes.

A new Florida elections law now requires you to register to vote-by-mail every two years rather than every four years.

The state legislature passed a law in 2021 that limits mail-in ballots to one per election cycle.

A new research paper found that following Hurricane Michael in 2018, the eight counties most impacted by the storm saw an 7 percent decline in voter turnout in the November elections. What could it mean post-Hurricane Ian?

Ballot rejections are often the result of relatively minor voter errors. That's why about half of states have a process in place to help voters fix their mail ballots if they do make a mistake.

The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail.

The GOP has filibustered Democrats' massive bill that's aimed at protecting and expanding voting rights and reforming campaign finance laws.

Several controversial new laws passed this year in Florida have already been hit with lawsuits and a ransomware attack on one of the nation’s largest gasoline suppliers created panic among consumers of a fuel shortage.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the measure live on Fox News. It's the latest Republican-led effort to alter state voting rules following record-breaking turnout during the 2020 election.

With Democrats likening the measure to Jim Crow-era practices aimed at keeping Black people from voting, the state Senate on Monday passed an elections package that would make it harder for Floridians to cast ballots by mail.

Florida’s Senate Rules Committee is preparing to scale down a proposal that would have done away with ballot drop boxes in the name of election reform. Lawmakers will continue to discuss the bill Friday or next week, after time ran out in the committee before a vote could be taken. The plan is still under fire from Democrats and voting rights groups who say the rest of the bill makes it harder for Floridians to vote.