What is the deadline for receipt and counting of overseas absentee ballots?
[updated November 22] These ballots can be received and counted as long as they were received by November 17. Florida Administrative Code section 1S-2.013(7) provides: “With respect to the presidential preference primary and the general election, any absentee ballot cast for a federal office by an overseas elector which is postmarked or signed and dated no later than the date of the Federal election shall be counted if received no later than 10 days from the date of the Federal election as long as such absentee ballot is otherwise proper.” The regulatory provision cited above apparently is the product of a consent decree in prior litigation. The relevant statute, section 101.67(2), still requires that absentee ballots to be counted must be received by the county supervisor of elections by 7 pm on the day of the election. More questions…
