Mail voting surges across South Florida — with more than 300,000 ballots cast so far

Rupert Simpson, center, pulls a rack full of vote-by-mail ballots to be loaded onto a truck at the Broward County Voter Equipment Center in Lauderhill on July 9, 2020. Broward and Palm Beach counties have already exceeded the total number of mail ballots cast in the August 2016 and 2018 elections, with many days left for ballots to arrive. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)