Mail-in ballots: What you need to know

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — We are now less than three weeks from election day, and with the pandemic, more and more people across Florida are choosing to vote by mail.

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In Central Florida, more than 350,000 vote-by-mail ballots have already been returned. In Orange County alone, around 100,000 more people have requested vote-by-mail ballots than in the 2016 presidential election.

Here’s what you need to know this year to make sure your ballot is counted:

• Get it done early.
• Drop boxes are available in some locations to return it directly to the Supervisor of Elections office.

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• Make sure it’s signed and dated.
• It must be in the Supervisor’s Office on Election Day.
• Starting next Monday, drop boxes will be at each of the 20 early voting sites around Orange County.

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