With less than 100 hours until Election Day on Tuesday, state officials are telling residents to put vote-by-mail ballots in secure drop boxes such as the ones at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Parkdale High School in Riverdale Park, the Pavilion at the University of Maryland Xfinity Center in College Park, and Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt or if in D.C., Turkey Thicket Recreation Center and Union Market.
Here’s more on what you need to know if you live on the Route 1 corridor.
In Maryland
You can return your ballot in a drop box, which will remain open 24-hours a day, seven days a week until 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Once you’ve done that, you can check the status of your mail-in ballot online here.
You can also vote early at The Pavilion at University of Maryland’s Xfinity Center at 8500 Paint Branch Dr. from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Or you can vote on Election Day at the Xfinity Center or at Bladensburg High School at 4200 57th Ave., Eleanor Roosevelt High School at 7601 Hanover Parkway in Greenbelt or Northwestern High School at 7000 Adelphi Road in Hyattsville.
Maryland broke its early voting record on the first day and more than 1.6 million ballots have already been cast, which is more than half the total number of votes in the state in the 2016 election.
Mail-in voting has by far has been the most popular option locally, with some 193,465 Prince George’s County residents returning ballots as of Friday morning. Of those, 86 percent have come from registered Democrats and just 4 percent from Republicans.
So far, only 747 voters have cast ballots at the early voting center at the University of Maryland, however.
In D.C.
Registered voters on the Route 1 corridor who live in D.C. will have automatically received a mail-in ballot which they can return at drop boxes located at city libraries, Union Market or next to the Busboys and Poets in Brookland, among other places, by 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Early voting centers at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center at 1100 Michigan Ave. NE and at Union Market at 1309 Fifth St. NE will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Monday. Election Day voting will be at those same locations with DC polls remaining open until 8 p.m. on Election Day. If you are in line when polls close you can still vote, just stay in line.
In D.C., 183,365 ballots have already been cast, 59 percent of the 2016 turnout.