{"id":369876,"date":"2026-08-13T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369876\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:28:07","slug":"primary-voting-nears-1-2-million-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369876\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Voting Nears 1.2 Million \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the in-person early voting option in full swing statewide, voting for next week\u2019s primary has surpassed 1 million votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Division of Elections on Wednesday posted that more than 865,000 mail ballots have been returned to county elections offices and nearly 328,000 early votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And with a nearly 1.6 million registered voter advantage over Democrats, Republicans who have preferred the in-person early voting method over mail ballots have overtaken Democrats in the number of ballots cast for Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As President Donald Trump repeatedly questions voting by mail, registered Republicans in Florida have cast just under 190,000 early votes to a little more than 114,000 by registered Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats hold the edge in mail ballots, 387,000 to 337,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another 127,000 mail ballots and nearly 22,000 early votes have been cast by individuals without a party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 2022 primary, the last time there were statewide gubernatorial and Cabinet primaries, 3.7 million votes were cast, of which nearly 1.75 million were mail-in-ballots and just over 613,000 were early votes.\u00a0Turnout was just under 26 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the more than 3 million votes cast in the 2024 primary, 1.4 million came through the mail and 656,500 were cast at early voting locations.\u00a0Turnout was 22 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida With the in-person early voting option in full swing statewide, voting for&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-369876","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\/369876","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=369876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369876\/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=369876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}