Florida

You can find your polling place by utilizing your state resource. If you have further questions on your polling place location, please contact your county clerk.

Provisional ballots are counted by noon, 4 days after a General Election and 3 days after a Primary Election.

Voters receive a provisional ballot if:

• their registration cannot be verified at the polls
• an absentee ballot has been issued but the voter fails to bring it to the polls
• voter fails to provide proper ID
• the polling hours are extended (these provisional ballots are segregated from all other provisional ballots).

Voters must cast their provisional ballot in the correct polling place in order for it to be counted.

To vote at the polls, you must provide picture identification that also shows a signature OR picture identification and another form of ID with your signature.

Examples of accepted photo IDs with a signature are:

Florida state early voting, at a minimum, begins 10 days before an election and ends on the third day before an election. During this period, early voting is conducted no less than 8 hours but not more than 12 hours per day on each day during the period. Supervisors of Elections designate early voting sites 30 days before an election, contact your Supervisor of Elections for locations in your county.

You can apply to register to vote at any time. However, to vote in an election, you must be registered in the state by the book closing date, which is 29 days before each election. You may pre-register to vote if you are 17 years old or have received a valid Florida driver's license, whichever occurs earlier.

Vote-by-Mail (previously known as Absentee Voting) refers to voting a ballot you receive through the mail or picked up by a voter who is unable or unwilling to go to the polls to vote on Election Day. You do not have to be absent from the county or have an excuse to vote-by-mail in any election.

Information on local, state and federal candidates and ballot measures may be available here.

To see a list of available races, visit the race index.

For information on federal campaign contributions, please visit Open Secrets.

Or view your state's resource.

In order to be a poll worker in the state of Florida:

• You must be registered to vote in Florida
• You must be at least 18 years of age or 17 and pre registered
• You must be a resident of the county
• You will be entitled to compensation
• You must complete required training

To sign up, contact your local board of elections.

The voting systems used in Florida are optical scan and DRE.