{"id":343316,"date":"2026-07-17T11:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343316\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:26:06","slug":"deadline-monday-to-update-voter-registration-for-primary-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343316\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Monday to Update Voter Registration For Primary \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The New Service of Florida <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida residents face a Monday\u00a0deadline\u00a0to\u00a0register\u00a0for next month\u2019s primary election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you want to have a say in, let\u2019s say, either the Republican or Democratic governor\u2019s races, make sure you are affiliated with that party by July 20,\u201d said Leon County Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballot for the Aug. 18 primary, which is already being delivered to those requesting mail ballots, includes partisan primary races for\u00a0governor, state cabinet offices,\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate\u00a0and many Congressional and legislative races.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several nonpartisan city, county and judicial races across the state are also open to all voters, regardless of political affiliation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to new Florida voters, those who wish to switch their political party affiliation must also make changes by Monday for the update to take effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida is a closed primary state, meaning partisan primaries can only be voted in by voters registered with that party.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of June 30, there\u00a0were more than\u00a013.4\u00a0million registered voters\u00a0in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The New Service of Florida Florida residents face a Monday\u00a0deadline\u00a0to\u00a0register\u00a0for next month\u2019s primary election.\u00a0 \u201cIf you want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-343316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}