RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Thursday was referred to as a “catch-up” day on the tabulation middle in Riviera Beach. Election employees sorted vote-by-mail ballots forward of Election Day.

“We probably have about 350,000 to 360,000 ballots that could come back, and we have about 180,000 back [currently], so about half,” Wendy Sartory Link, the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections, stated.

She stated employees are busy opening the vote-by-mail ballots now.

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“As soon as they are done,” Sartory Link stated. “We will go ahead and tabulate those ballots.”

Election Day gear can also be getting packed up, prepared to move out to polling precincts.

So-called “election boxes” are stuffed with ballots and voting necessities. Tabulators are additionally getting assigned to areas and able to roll out.

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It’s a coordinated effort now to tally vote-by-mail ballots earlier than election evening when these day-of votes are available, and early votes consider as nicely.

“Part of the problem is Palm Beach County is so big geographically that we’ve got to get things in from all our outside locations,” Sartory Link stated.

Early voting runs by way of Sunday. All of the votes can be tabulated within the Riviera Beach warehouse on election evening.