Miami-Dade increases early voting hours for general election
Miami-Dade County will offer the maximum number of allowed early-voting hours ahead of the Nov. 8 general election, the elections department announced Thursday.
Early-voting sites will open for 12 hours a day — from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. — for a full two weeks, from Monday, Oct. 24, through Sunday, Nov. 6.
That’s 168 hours total — 56 more hours than the 112 hours offered leading to Tuesday’s primary election. Ahead of the primary, Miami-Dade also set two weeks of early voting, but sites were open for eight hours a day.
The increase is “commensurate” with a presidential election that draws more voters to the polls than any other election, the Miami-Dade elections department said in a statement.
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