Vote-by-Mail Ballots for August 18 Primary Election to be Mailed from Elections Headquarters July 9

The Office of the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections will mail vote-by-mail ballots (VBM) for the August 18 Primary Election on Thursday, July 9, to all voters who have requested them. The VBM ballots will be moved from the Supervisor of Elections Main Office Warehouse onto a USPS truck at 10:30 a.m. and the working media is invited to see the process unfold. Following the loading of approximately 168,000 ballots, Miami-Dade’s Supervisor of Elections, the Honorable Alina Garcia, will hold a media availability and answer questions related to this process and the upcoming elections.

“Building the public’s trust through secure, fair, accurate, and accessible elections is my pledge,” said Supervisor Garcia. “Voting by mail is one of three convenient ways our voters can cast their votes, along with early voting and voting on election day. I also want to encourage voter participation in these critically important elections.”

Mami-Dade County voters may choose to receive a vote-by-mail ballot for a specific election or for all elections in which they are eligible to vote through the next regularly scheduled general election. All vote-by-mail requests made before the 2024 general election expired on January 1, 2025. Under Florida law, VBM requests must be renewed after every regularly scheduled general election.

The U.S. Post Office will not forward your vote-by-mail ballot to a different address. If you want your vote-by-mail ballot sent to an address that's different from the one on file with the Office of the Supervisor of Elections, you must complete a Statewide Vote-By-Mail Ballot Request Form and it must include the signature of the voter unless the voter is an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter, or if the request is made by a designee.

The last day to request  a vote-by-mail ballot for the Aug. 18 Primary Election is Thursday, August 6,  2026. Your vote-by-mail ballot must be received by the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day. Don’t wait! Mail it back early so we can contact you if there is a problem with your signature.

The SOE also reminds voters that the last day to register to vote to participate in this Primary Election is July 20.

Visit www.votemiamidade.gov for the very latest updates and information and follow us on social media @votemiamidade. For questions pertaining to voting by mail, please call 305-499-8444.