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Safety measures in place for early voting in Lee County

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Safety measures in place for early voting in Lee County
Safety measures in place for early voting in Lee County

Florida’s Primary Election is on Tuesday, August 18, but early voting begins Saturday in Lee and Collier Counties.

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THE DRIVER AND PASSENGERIN THE SEDAN SUFFERED MINORINJURIES.EARLY VOTING FOR THE STATESAUGUST 18TH PRIMARY ELECTIONBEGINS TOMORROW FOR LEE ANDCOLLIER COUNTIES.BUT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC━YOU WILL SEE SOME CHANGES AS THESTATE TAKES STEPS TO KEEP VOTERSAND WORKERS SAFE.FOX 4 SANDRA RODRIGUEZ JOINS USLIVE WITH WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWBEFORE HEADING TO THE POLLSSANDRA?WELL━ PEOPLE WILL NEED TO MAKESURE TO BRING A MASK WITH THEMWHEN TO THEY HEAD OUT TO VOTETHOSE WHO DON’T HAVE ONE WILL BEGIVEN ONE WHEN THEY ARRIVE NOW-- THERE WERE CONCERNS EARLIERIN THE WEEK OVER A POLL WORKERSHORTAGE IN LEE COUNTY BUT THESUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS TELLS MEEARLY VOTING SITES WILL BE FULLYSTAFFED..0:00 - 0:06SOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"With the COVID-19, you canexpect we’re going to befollowing all the CDCRecommendations."IT’S EARLY VOTING FOR FLORIDA’SPRIMARY ELECTIONAND ELECTION OFFICIALS IN LEECOUNTY WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU’RESAFE WHEN YOU HEAD TO THE POLLSSOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"We’re requesting that peoplewear masks."ADDITIONAL SAFETY MEASURESEXCLUDE EXTRA SANITIZATION ANDPIXI-GLASS BARRIERSPOLL WORKERS ALSO TAKING SAFETYPRECAUTIONSSOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"All our polling workers will bewearing a mask or face shield."EARLIER THIS WEEK━ LEE COUNTYREPORTED A SHORTAGE OF POLLWORKERSBUT THE LEE COUNTY SUPERVISOR OFELECTIONS -- TOMMY DOYLE -- SAYSTHEY HAVE SEEN THEIR NUMBER OFVOLUNTEERS INCREASE...SOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"People are signing up and nowwe are fully manned, so we’reputting them on as alternates."LEE COUNTY WILL HAVE 10 EARLYVOTING SITES ALL FULLY STAFFEDDOYLE DOESN’T ANTICIPATE LONGWAIT TIMESBUT FOR THOSE WHO PREFER TOVOTE-BY-MAIL━ IT’S NOT TOO LATETO REQUEST YOUR BALLOTSOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"You can drop off yourvote-by-mail at early voting,and we’re going to set up dropoff points away from the pollinglocations.

Basically it’ll be adrive-thru drop off."DOYLE SAYS THIS PRIMARY ELECTIONHAS RESULTED IN A HISTORICNUMBER OF VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOTREQUESTSSOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"180-thousand voters haverequested vote-by-mail, we’reprobably doing a thousand a dayrequests."SO FAR━ DOYLE SAYS ROUGHLY80-THOUSAND HAVE BEEN RETURNEDSOT(Tommy Doyle, Lee CountySupervisor of Elections):"I expect we’re going to haveclose to a 120,000 returned, sowe’re going to have a big busyweek next week."THE DEADLINE TO REQUEST AVOTE-BY- MAIL BALLOT IS TOMORROWBEFORE 5 P-M EARLY VOTING RUNSFROM AUGUST 8 TO THE 15TH YOUCAN FIND A LIST OF P

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