ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — All former vote-by-mail requests in Florida expired on Jan. 1, 2025, because of a state law requiring voters to renew their requests after each federal general election cycle.

State law requires supervisors of elections to send vote-by-mail ballots during a seven-day window, which is between 40 and 33 days before an election. For this year’s Nov. 8 general election ...

What's the deadline to request a vote by mail ballot in Florida? The deadline to request a VBM ballot from your county's election office for the next election is 5 p.m. Saturday, August 13.

Florida is speedier than many other states as it allows local elections boards to count early voting and vote-by-mail ballots as they are submitted, rather than waiting until polls close.

As of Wednesday, about 700,000 more voters have already taken advantage of voting by mail and voting early this year compared to 2022, when a combined total of 5.06 million voted before Election Day.

Florida's official election results won't be posted until much later. Florida has a few deadlines for when counties have to report their returns.The first deadline is for unofficial returns on Nov. 9.

All official returns have to be sent to the state no later than noon on Nov. 18. How many people have voted in Florida so far ...

The Florida Division of Elections referred 75 fraud complaints to law enforcement in 2020, equal to 0.001% of the over 11 million ballots cast in the general election.

In Osceola, elections office official Kari Ewalt said 80,000 mailers were sent out this year to everyone who received a mail ballot in 2022, leading to 24,000 sign-ups so far. “Everywhere we go ...

A supervisor of elections must mail the ballot out within 2 business days after a request but no later than the 10th day before election day. How, where to return mail-in ballotsBy mail Delivered ...

Kevin Wagner, a Florida Atlantic University professor and associate dean who has written extensively on American politics, said laws that restrict mail-in voting in the name of election security ...

There's no training requirement and it's up to supervisors of elections in each of Florida's 67 counties to set parameters on how that's going to work. And that takes time and money.