Broward County elections supervisor Joe Scott urged voters to cast ballots in person due to serious postal delays. He said his office got dozens of reports about slow mail delivery. Scott noted that the process should take two days tops, but some voters reported waiting over two weeks for delivery.
The Broward County supervisor of elections said his office had received dozens of reports that ballots weren't being delivered in a timely manner.
The supervisor of elections in one of Florida's most populous counties is urging voters there to cast ballots at early voting stations or to deliver their mail ballots in person, rather than relying on the U.S. Postal Service, because of what he called "serious" delays with mail ballot delivery.
Joe Scott, the elections supervisor in Broward County, Fla., said his office had received dozens of reports from voters in recent weeks complaining that their completed ballots weren't being delivered to his office in a timely manner. That process, Mr. Scott said, should take "two days tops," but some voters told his office that it was taking over two weeks.
Voters generally cannot track their ballots in the mail, Mr. Scott said, but his office notifies voters when it receives their ballots. For ballots to be counted in Florida, they must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day.
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