If you want to avoid what may be some long lines at the polls next week, you still have time to sign up to vote by mail in the general election. Today is the last day to request those ballots.
Vote by mail is increasingly popular. The latest figures from the State Association of Clerks and Election Officials show more than 40-percent of registered voters statewide have signed-up.
Rebecca Martinez is president of the group. She says counties hope people won't wait until Election Day to turn those ballots in:
Martinez: If voters have been issued a VBM ballot, we'd encourage them to get them in, as soon as they have made their choices. You know, we'd like to be able to get as many of those ballots counted on election night. I think that's true of all counties."
Martinez says every county has a cut-off time where they have to put the processing of vote by mail ballots on hold.
She says typically it's early on Election Day or the day before. That's because each ballot's signature has to be verified... and that takes time.
She says they finish counting them after the election. In the February Presidential Primary Election earlier this year, 42-percent of voters cast ballots by mail.
