The vote-by-mail (VBM) voting process begins when the voter fills out the Florida Statewide Vote-By-Mail Ballot Request Form. A critical piece of this process is the voter's driver's license number or the last four digits of the Social Security Number, which are filled out at the top of the form. When these fields are left blank, they are informally referred to as "No-No" ballots because no information is provided in either field. Without this information, it is a felony to send the so-called voter a ballot.
Across Florida, Ticktin has uncovered 592,335 VBM “No-No” ballots issued to requestors who did not provide the required identification but were mailed a ballot anyway. Of these illegally issued ballots, 475,340 were returned to their counties, where they were processed and counted as votes.
During election season, the typical number of requests for VBM ballots across Florida averages a few thousand per day. On September 9, 2024, 196,986 "No-No" requests for VBMs arrived in Pinellas County alone, and on September 13, 2024, 245,255 "No-No" requests arrived in Miami-Dade County alone. These are huge red flags. Once the ballot is separated from the envelope, the illegitimate ballots are mingled with the legitimate ones, and the votes are counted.
More than 5,000 "No-No" ballots were also issued in Hillsborough County, FL-14. Combined with the massive number of "No-No" ballots in Pinellas County, these numbers were more than enough to swing the election to Democrat Kathy Castor.