How to Vote in the US Midterms: For Hillsborough Voters It Is Too Late to Mail a Ballot - Here Is What Still Works
With early voting closed, Hillsborough voters have two routes left: vote in person Tuesday at their assigned precinct, or hand-deliver a mail ballot to the elections office by 7 p.m. Tuesday. Mailing it now is no longer one of them.
Searches for how to vote in the US midterms are near the top of the national trend lists on the eve of Election Day, and in Hillsborough County the answer has narrowed to two routes. Early voting ended Sunday at 7 p.m., and there is no voting on Monday - the next ballot cast in the county will be cast on Tuesday.
For voters still holding a mail ballot, Tampa Bay 28's Election Day guidance, read by this desk this cycle, is blunt: it is too late to send that ballot through the mail. A mail ballot must be in the elections office's hands by 7 p.m. Tuesday - voters can drop it off at the supervisor of elections office, or bring it to their own polling place on Tuesday, surrender it there, and vote a regular ballot in person instead.
In-person voting on Tuesday runs 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the voter's assigned precinct only - not at any site, the way early voting worked. Voters need a photo ID with a signature, such as a driver's license or a passport, and they should expect a long ballot: six amendments are on it, and elections officials have urged voters to review a sample ballot before they arrive rather than read the amendments for the first time in the booth.
