Happy Election Day, PBC!

I’m out and about at different polling places today. Let me know about your experience. Feel free to DM me or email me hwinston[at] http://pbpost.com  https://twitter.com/pbpost/status/1295731438193647623

Here’s where you can read all of our coverage leading up to today that includes candidate profiles, editorials and other voting information https://www.palmbeachpost.com/topics/pbcelex2020

If you didn’t vote early or by mail like thousands of others in PBC, here are some precautions to know if you’re going in-person today:

If you have a mail-in ballot but still haven’t sent it in, you need to take it to one of the four election offices in the county.

If you’re taking it to the main office,at 240 South Military Trail, West Palm Beach, it needs to be there before 7 p.m. when polls close.

If you’re taking it to one of the other three locations, your ballot must be received by 5 p.m.

North County: 3188 P.G.A. Blvd.
Rm. #2401, PBG

South County: 345 South Congress Avenue
Rm. #103, Delray Beach

West County: 2976 State Road #15
Second Floor, Belle Glade

While you could drop your filled out ballot at any polling location during Early Voting, on Election Day you have to take it to one of the election offices.

If you choose to vote in-person but have a mail-in ballot, the Supervisor of Elections suggests bringing it (marked or not) to your polling location so when you vote there they can verify you have not voted by mail as well.

Read more here: https://www.pbcelections.org/Voters/Vote-By-Mail

A few things are different this year with voting...I got an “I Voted” sticker and pen!

Out at the Wellington library, short line to get in to vote. Most people are in and out with no issue.

Everyone I’ve seen so far has masks, many of the masks are those provided by the @pbcgov as part of coronavirus response.

One couple I spoke with, Angela and Franklin Logalbo, came to the wrong polling place. They usually vote at the clubhouse in their community, but came to Wellington thinking this was their alternative when they didn’t see any cars at the clubhouse.

Both were wearing blue surgical masks provided by PBC and gloves.

Angela said they came out to vote like they always do and “didn’t want to mess” with early voting or mail-in ballots. They’re headed home to try and sort things out now.

“We very much want to vote,” she said.

She said they came out to vote “as normally as possible,” she said, chuckling and waving her hands covered in blue plastic gloves in the air.

Went over to Turning Points Academy, off of Okeechobee Blvd and west of Jog Road, which is the new polling place for voters who would normally vote in the Golden Lakes Village community.

Lots of balloons and signs, but I didn’t see any voters for the time I was there.

Heard there may have been some confusion on the new polling place location but SOE said signs were placed at the old one and notifications were mailed out.

@pbcelections Wendy Link gives update on election so far:

No widespread issues. Poll workers fully staffed. Much larger increase of drop off ballots (mail-in brought to elections offices) in last two days.

She said they’ve really been encouraging anyone who still has a mail-in ballot to drop them off at elections offices, much like the box outside of the PBC Supervisor of Elections in West Palm, to guarantee their vote is counted