By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n
Voting for the Aug. 18 primary surged over the weekend as the in-person \u201cearly voting\u201d option became available statewide.<\/p>\n
The Division of Elections reported Monday morning more than 900,000 ballots for the primary have already been cast: nearly 760,000 in mail ballots and almost 175,000 voters using early voting locations in their county.<\/p>\n
As has been the trend since President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned voting by mail, registered Republicans in Florida use the early in-person voting method more than registered Democrats \u2013 97,000 to 64,000 as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Democrats accounted for more than 337,000 mail ballots, compared to almost 295,000 submitted by registered Republicans.<\/p>\n
Although Florida\u2019s primaries are closed, meaning only voters registered for a party can vote in that party\u2019s primary, there is an exception when no other candidates are on the ballot. Also, there are non-partisan local elections set for the primary election, so registered voters with no party affiliation have cast 113,000 mail ballots and just under 12,000 in-person ballots.<\/p>\n
In the 2024 primary, just over 2 million votes were cast prior to the day of the election, 1.4 million with mail ballots and 656,500 at early voting locations.<\/p>\n
Republicans accounted for 572,000 mail ballots and 392,000 early votes in the 2024 primary. Democrats cast 625,000 mail ballots and 212,000 early votes.<\/p>\n
Voters without a party affiliation cast 197,000 ballots in the mail and 47,000 at early voting locations in the 2024 primary.<\/p>\n
Overall, a little more than 3 million Floridians, out of 13.5 million registered voters, participated in the 2024 primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Voting for the Aug. 18 primary surged over the weekend as the…\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-368349","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\/368349","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=368349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368349\/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=368349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}