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Provisional Ballot Voters Have Until 5 P.M. to Prove Their Eligibility

Tara Calligan
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WGCU

If you voted provisionally in the midterm election, today, Nov. 8, at 5 p.m. is the deadline to prove your eligibility.

Five Southwest Florida counties have an online status checker, which you can find at the following links:

 
Or, you can call for your status in all eight Southwest Florida counties:

  • Collier County – (239) 252-8683
  • Lee County – (239) 533-9683
  • Charlotte County – (941) 833-5400
  • Sarasota County – (941) 861-8600
  • Manatee County – (941) 741-3820
  • Desoto County – (863) 993-4871
  • Hendry County – (863) 675-5230
  • Glades County – (863) 946-6005

 
If you can't confirm the status of your provisional ballot by either phone or online, you will have to head to your county's Supervisor of Elections office before it closes today at 5 p.m.

The offices are located at:

  • Collier County

        3750 Enterprise Avenue
        Naples, FL 34104

  • Lee County

          Melvin Morgan Constitutional Complex
          2480 Thompson St, 3rd Floor

          Fort Myers, FL 33901

  • Charlotte County

          Charlotte County Historic Courthouse
          226 Taylor Street

          Punta Gorda, FL 33950

  • Sarasota County

          101 S Washington Blvd
          Sarasota, FL 34236

  • Manatee County

          600 301 Blvd. W., Suite 108
          Bradenton, FL 34205

  • Desoto County

           201 E. Oak Street, Suite 104
          Arcadia, FL 34266

  • Hendry County

          25 E. Hickpochee Avenue
          LaBelle, FL 33935

  • Glades County

          500 Avenue J
          Moore Haven, Florida 33471

 

If you cast a traditional or vote-by-mail ballot, you can also confirm your vote was recorded at the following links. The site will say it is a registration status checker, but once you put your information in, the following page will show you the most recent two elections you voted in (the 2018 primary and general election, for example) under the "past elections" header. At the bottom of each box, it should state "You voted at..." or "You voted by..."

 
Glades County does not appear to have an online status checker, so give the office a call at (863) 946-6005.

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.