If you are a registered voter in many of Ocean County’s smaller municipalities you can expect your vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 3 General Election to be appearing in your mailbox soon.

“We started mailing them out yesterday,” said Ocean County Clerk Scott M. Colabella on Tuesday afternoon. “Just as in the primaries, we’re sending them out alphabetically by town from smallest to largest. We don’t want to flood the post office all at once.”