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Voters beware! please sign your absentee ballots or they will not count.

Supervisors of Elections across Florida are warning those with absentee ballots to sign the ballots themselves.Many ballots canvassed today were rejected because they had no signature.
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Concern in Pinellas County about early voting sites

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Reported by: Keith Baker
Email: kbaker@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 11:50 am

Voters wait in line at a Largo early voting location

PINELLAS COUNTY, FL -- Some voters in Pinellas County are concerned about the number of locations for early voting with only three sites. As a result of the robust turnout, voters are upset, saying they feel their right to vote early is being suppressed.

More than 600,000 are registered to vote in Pinellas County, with many voters opting to vote early creating lines in some cases.

One voter says a woman in a wheelchair couldn't wait for the hour it was taking to move through so she left the line and was joined by two others.

A Democratic National Committee leader is calling for a Grand Jury to investigate Pinellas and Manatee Counties to find out why so few voting locations were assigned for early voting.

The Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections said she didn't feel there was any merit to the need for an investigation and is confident that the current early voting program is in the best interest of Pinellas County.

Manatee County has one early voting location. The other counties with the number of designated early voting locations in the Tampa Bay Region are:

Hillsborough 13

Sarasota 7

Pasco 7

Polk 6

103 Hillsborough County absentee ballots flagged so far

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Reported by: Don Germaise
Email: dgermaise@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 5:57 am

TAMPA, FL -- 103 absentee ballots out of 10,000 filed so far in Hillsborough County have been flagged for irregularities. The Hillsborough County Canvassing Board rejected 91 of those, saying they will not count in the November 4th General Election.

Canvassing Board member Kevin White told ABCActionNews.com that 51 of 103 ballots canvassed today were rejected because they had no signature.

White, who is a Hillsborough County Commissioner, is warning those with absentee ballots to sign the ballots themselves, or they will not count.

Other problems with the ballots were signatures that didn't match what was on file and signatures that didn't match the name on the ballot.

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