Fairfax County will add permanent ballot drop boxes as mail-ballot returns spike
County staff reported higher-than-normal returned-mail percentages and said the Board of Supervisors approved funding for permanent drop boxes at the Government Center, Mount Vernon and North County to handle higher returns.
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Fairfax County elections staff told the board that vote-by-mail returns are running higher than in recent elections and described plans to expand permanent drop-box capacity. Staff said the office mailed 70,484 permanent absentee ballots and that roughly 28,064 had been returned, representing about 35% of mailed ballots. "We're at 17% ballots returned to drop boxes, and usually, we're in the 10 to 15% range," the vote-by-mail manager reported.
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