CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Early voting is underway for the November elections, and while many things may be the same, there is one important difference for those voting through the mail.

If you are voting through the mail you need to make sure that the witness signature line is signed if you want your vote counted.

“It’s not going to be something that we just deny right away, we will talk to the voter and come up with a way,” Charlottesville Acting General Registrar and Director of Elections Taylor Yowell said.

Without that witness signature the process won’t be so smooth.

“If it’s just that the voter themselves forgot to sign the ballot, they can come in and sign it. But if it’s a witness they didn’t get, it gets a little more complicated,” Registrar and Director of Elections for Albemarle County Jake Washburne said . . .