Early Voting

With two weeks until Election Day, more than 35 million Americans have already voted in the 2020 presidential election, according to U.S. Elections Project data Tuesday. Votes cast by mail and in person this election cycle have now reached 25.5% of the more than 136 million total ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election. By Oct. 23, 2016, only 5.9 million Americans had…

City of Miami Police say they will discipline a police officer who was photographed wearing a Trump face mask while in uniform at an early voting polling location Tuesday morning. The photo was tweeted by Steve Simeonidis, Chair of Miami-Dade Democrats, inside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in Downtown Miami. In his Tweet, Simeonidis calls the officer’s mask...

The photo was put on social media by the leader of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, who is calling for the officer to be disciplined.

Rain or shine, nothing seemed to stop South Florida voters from participating in the state’s first day of early voting Monday. In Miami-Dade, a record-setting 43,396 votes were cast. At the county’s elections department, voters waited in the pouring rain and darkness until the doors opened at 7 a.m. Across town, at the Lemon City Branch Library, voters put...

Authorities were asked to respond to an altercation between voters and election workers over face masks at a Fort Lauderdale Mall Monday afternoon. According to Fort Lauderdale Police, a poll worker in charge of the Coral Ridge Mall voting site called police after noticing four voters waiting in line without face masks. Officers say they were told by the poll…

Polling locations in Broward will be open for early voting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. until November 1.

Can I take a selfie with my ballot? What do I need to bring to the voting center? Here’s everything you need to know as early voting begins in Florida

Nathalia Orthiz is live from Doral with all the details as early voting begins in Florida.

With 28.1 million votes already cast, nearly five times the number of people have voted so far in the 2020 election than at this time in 2016. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain explains what this surge in early voting means for the presidential race.

With just over two weeks left until election day, the Trump and Biden campaigns are in full swing.

Early voting in South Florida begins on Monday.

Rising coronavirus cases in key presidential battleground states are the latest worry for election officials and voters a little more than two weeks before Election Day

Black people are going to the polls by the thousands and waiting in lines for hours to vote early in Georgia

Early voting is underway in many states, and so far turnout has been huge. The large turnout means reaching the ballot box may require some persistence, especially for voters in states like Georgia and Texas who are seeing hours-long wait times to vote.

With early voting drawing crowds to polling locations across the country, NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker has safety tips for voters heading to the polls. Bringing your own pen and social distancing in line are just some ways you can stay safe from COVID-19 this election.

Following a nearly week-long strike over racial injustice and police brutality, NBA players returned to the court last Saturday after teams pledged to make their own arenas voting sites for the upcoming election. The Miami Heat were under the impression they would fulfill that pledge until Friday night, when Miami-Dade officials rejected the team’s bid to make the American...

A poll worker in Southwest Florida was fired after an investigation into claims they tried to discourage a voter from casting their ballot last week. NBC affiliate WBBH-TV reports the incident took place last Friday at a early voting location in Collier County. Officials with the county’s Supervisor of Elections office say the worker tried to discourage the voter...

Statewide in-person early voting is underway in Florida as the state grapples with the coronavirus pandemic

Voters in Miami-Dade County will get a chance to begin early voting for the August 18th primaries on Monday. The county will allow registered voters to cast their ballots at sites across the county each day through Sunday, August 16th. Click here for a list of sites across the county and hours each site will be open. With the coronavirus…