Election Day in Palm Beach County: Polls Open at 7 A.M. Tuesday - What Time Polls Open, Where to Vote and What Is on the Ballot
More than 40 percent of the county has already voted. For everyone else, Tuesday is the last chance: assigned precincts only, polls 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., mail ballots due at the elections office - not at a polling place - and two polling places have moved because of flooding.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, in Palm Beach County, and it is the final opportunity for voters who have not already cast a ballot by mail or during early voting. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and unlike early voting, Election Day voting happens only at the polling place assigned to your precinct - voters who are in line at their assigned location by the 7 p.m. deadline will be allowed to vote. Registered voters can find their precinct and assigned location through the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections' Precinct Finder at VotePalmBeach.gov, review their sample ballot there, or use the office's free Vote Palm Beach mobile app; the elections office can also be reached at 561-656-6200.
Two assigned locations are not where voters last saw them. After days of rain across the Palm Beaches, the elections office confirmed on Monday that flooding forced the closure of two Election Day polling places: voters assigned to the Casa Rio Clubhouse in Riviera Beach will instead vote at Riviera Beach Preparatory and Achievement Academy, 7071 Garden Road, and voters assigned to Ironhorse Country Club in West Palm Beach will vote at the North County Senior Center, 5217 Northlake Blvd. in Palm Beach Gardens. In the town of Palm Beach, seven precincts are served by three locations: precincts 5601 and 5602 at St. Edward Parish Hall, 165 N. County Road; precincts 5603 and 5604 at the Mandel Recreation Center, 340 Seaview Ave.; and precincts 5605, 5607 and 5608 at the South Fire-Rescue Station, 2185 S. Ocean Blvd. Bring identification that carries both a photo and a signature - a Florida driver's license or ID card, a U.S. passport, or a student, military or government employee ID; a voter who arrives without it may still cast a provisional ballot for the Canvassing Board to rule on later.
Mail ballots have their own deadlines, and a polling place is not one of them. A vote-by-mail ballot cannot be dropped off at an Election Day polling place; it must reach the Supervisor of Elections' Main Office by 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, or a branch office or secure ballot intake station by 5 p.m. A voter who requested a mail ballot but would rather vote in person may surrender the unreturned ballot at their polling place and vote an Election Day ballot instead. Anyone whose returned mail ballot shows a signature problem can cure it with a Vote-by-Mail Ballot Signature Cure Affidavit and identification by 5 p.m. on Nov. 5. They will be deciding a long ballot: U.S. Senate, U.S. House District 23, governor and lieutenant governor, state chief financial officer and commissioner of agriculture, Florida House District 87, state Senate District 24, School Board District 4, Port of Palm Beach Group 5, clerk of the circuit court and comptroller, judicial retention questions, the property-tax Amendment 3, and county referendums to raise $280 million for parks and $175 million for libraries and to continue a supplemental school district property tax. They vote after an early-voting surge that topped 40 percent of the county's registered voters - 42.2 percent by Stet News' accounting, with more than 222,000 ballots cast early in person and Democrats holding a pre-Election Day edge of nearly 50,000 cast ballots that Republicans, who historically turn out in far greater numbers on the day itself, will try to erase by 7 p.m.
