Early Voting starts on October 22 and ends on November 2
 

EARLY VOTING
October 22 - November 2, 2024
9 AM - 6 PM
Voters can vote at any Early Voting Location

There are seven early voting locations in Sumter County. Six are in the Villages and the seventh is in Bushnell.

Sumter County Maps

Already voted and got my confirmation via email.

I voted by mail and sent it in the next day.

A good way to avoid the lines on Election Day. In 2020 4 million plus Floridian's voted early including mail ballots. It will probably be more in 2024.

This will be my first presidential election in Florida. What are the lines like on election day?
I have always voted on election day (it used to be the only option) but I don't want to spend hours waiting in line.

https://www.flsenate.gov/UserContent...2011-118ee.pdf

When I voted in the 2020 election on Election day, it was at the Lady Lake library. The line was out the door and up to the parking lot. It went fairly quickly but since the election booths were on the 2nd floor, they had to deal with just two elevators and their limited capacities. On the other hand, that did seem to pace things nicely. I was in line at the edge of the parking lot, and back into my car to drive home all within an hour.

That's ON Election day. If you vote early and wait until a few days after the first day, you'll probably see no lines at all.

early voting/Lady Lake has moved to the building behind the Library.. no steps to climb/larger location

Good to hear. I did not like the parking problem when I would go to that library nor the crowds in the library.

I always vote asap.

[QUOTE=Bay Kid;2379510]I always vote asap.[/QUOT

Just FYI. If you have a bite my mail ballot and are worried about mailing it back, you can drop it off at any early voting location. You tell the poll worker at the door you want to just drop off a mail in ballot and they will send you to the right person. Goes in a locked and secured ballot box and the poll worker makes sure you have sealed and signed it properly. Just an option for those who worry about the mail. And if you drop it off, you can still track it online

Oh no!
 

We have to get rid of mail-in ballots because once you have mail-in ballots, you have crooked elections

Thank you for the mail in ballot tip.

If you vote on Election day, I think a lot depends on where.

This will be our third election here. We vote at Savannah Center and there has never been a wait of more than maybe 15 minutes. The people running the show are super-efficient and the process is both fast and smooth.

Also, if there IS a rather long wait...there are a lot worse places to have to wait than Savannah Center.

Early voting starts on Monday, October 21 in Marion County and Lake County, one day earlier than in Sumter County.

That is interesting. No standard rule for the entire state??

These are the current statistics from the Florida Division of Elections.

Statistics - County Vote-by-Mail and Early Voting Reports

Your opinion. Our elections are not crooked and mail ballots are fine.

Mail in
 

I can only Speak for Sumter County, but “mail in” ballots have to be requested every year, are placed in a secure lock up, and counted on Election Day. You can also track the receipt of your ballot.

Voting
 

Since 1972 I have voted in person on the day called Election Day and will continue to do it the traditional way always. Don't like early or mail in voting at all!!

Substantiate the statement please.

I have voted by mail/ absentee ballot for over 20 years. It is wonderful for those on the road, caregivers, servicemen overseas, and recovering athletes and surgery patients. Most election workers vote by mail or absentee. My traveling daughter (a nurse) votes by mail. Essential for active, productive, mobile society. Fewer chances to catch something from the sneezers at the polls too.

Can I vote at Rohan if I’m considered in lake county?

I don’t mind mail in ballots but there has to be cut off date well before the election day. Once polls close no more ballots excepted.

I believe you must vote in your own county.

There have been mail-in ballots since the Civil War, when soldiers were unable to vote in their precinct because they were stationed elsewhere. And since the Civil War, there has been NO statistically significant incidences of mail-in ballot fraud.

Yes, some folks have tried to vote twice - once with a mail-in and once at their voting location. But when that happens, the mail-in becomes invalid and doesn't count. In some cases, the person will be detained at the voting location and informed that they've already voted and can't vote again.

This is standard procedure and has been since the 1800s. Fear-based reactions of problems that don't exist, do nothing more than increase the profits for pharmaceutical companies that sell Xanax and Valium.

You can't refuse to accept mail that comes in after your arbitrary date. If it's POSTMARKED before that date, then you have to count it no matter when it shows up.

There is a state-mandated date - but individual counties can allow voting earlier than that date. The mandate basically says all counties must begin to allow early voting BY a certain date (at the latest).

This benefits counties that are mostly rural, where it's more difficult for voters to get to their assigned voting location. It also benefits suburbs, where most voters work in a nearby city that might be in a different county, and don't have as much opportunity to get to the polls in their authorized locations.

If Election Day were made a National Holiday, things would be different, because employers would be required to give EVERYONE paid time off to vote that day. Full-timers would split shifts with other full-timers so that there's still coverage at the job.

But it's not a national holiday, and so those voting locations are insanely crowded during the lunch rush and from 6pm til closing. The rest of the day, people are at work. Now that some counties and some states have eliminated many voting locations, it's created even more of a gridlock. The only solutions to that, presently:

1. Force people to not vote (which some areas are trying to do by making it harder to get to the polls and putting unreasonable restrictions on mail-in and early voting)
2. Expand voting locations on Election Day
3. Expand hours on Election Day
4. Support more efficient mail-in voting options
5. Support more efficient early-vote options.

Early voting
 

Such b.s…….what ever happened to election DAY ??????

A single election day wasn't even a thing when our country was first founded and our first elections were held.

Mail-in voting has been a thing since the Civil War, and ALL of that was "early" voting, since the voter had to submit their vote through the mail BEFORE election day.

Early voting has been an established thing since 1864. You just didn't care about it enough to notice, until recently.

Voting
 

What about Lake County?

Good day to vote. Another manmade day off with pay some people while everyone else works to pay for their day off.

Ditto for my husband and me.

I suggest you volunteer to work an election and you’ll find out how UN-crooked they are.

We dropped off our mail-in ballots at the elections office in the gold dome building in Wildwood yesterday. A clerk was taking the envelopes, checking that they were signed and sealed, and placing them directly in a secure box. There was a steady stream of voters dropping off ballots when we were there. We even got “I Voted” stickers, and info about tracking our ballots. It was a well oiled machine. Love not having to vote in person on Election Day.

I heard that some people still do money transactions using checks! :shocked:

After being forced to “mail only” voting in Colorado, it’s nice to be able to vote in person at my precinct on Election Day. Looking forward to voting the old-fashioned way in person on Election Day (my first presidential election as a Villager)

"The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier it is to stop up the drain". (Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, NCC-1701, USS Enterprise).

Can you imagine how crazy people will get once we do electronic voting? Or when they find out that results are tabulated by computers?

When you say considered in Lake County, do you mean you live in Lake County?

If you live and are registered in Lake, you can’t vote in Sumter. They only have records for Sumter County voters.

They do not have records for the other 66 counties.

Close but no cigar for you. Different states have different rules about mail in ballots. Some (32) states require that the ballot arrive by election day, period. 18 states accept ballots postmarked by election day but arriving after election day.
Most, maybe all, have rules giving some leniency to overseas ballots.

Some states accept an early mail in ballot even if there is evidence the voter died between voting and election day. Others reject such ballots

(A side note... President Carter now age 100 voted early)

Here is FL's rule
HERE is the list of each state and territorial rule.

There are more people working, machines and locations for early voting. Also, once your ballot is received, you won't be solicited anymore. No more phone calls, no more mailings, etc.