LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Lake County Supervisor of Elections Alan Hays said they have started to count the 2020 Election vote-by-mail ballots coming in.Florida is one of more than 20 states that can count absentee or vote-by-mail ballots ahead of Election Day, up to 40 days before Nov.
3.Hays gave News 6 a look inside at the process of tabulating the ballots.“It’s a very methodical process, it has to be attention to detail,” said Hays.Hays said they’ve mailed out 82,610 vote-by-mail ballots, and said, so far, they’ve had 32,000 returned to the county election office.[RESULTS 2020: Mark your calendar with these important dates ahead of the general election]He said when they open the ballot envelopes, the envelopes are kept in a position so that.