{"id":374668,"date":"2026-08-18T14:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374668\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:04:57","slug":"central-florida-polls-open-for-the-states-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374668\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida polls open for the state&#8217;s primary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Polls are open across Central Florida for Primary Election Day, with voters casting ballots in local and statewide races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Voting is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters should go to their assigned precinct, which is based on their address and listed on their voter information card.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Supervisor of elections offices also have online tools to help voters find their polling places. Officials recommend checking before leaving because polling locations can change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/news\/2026\/08\/04\/primary-election-day-in-central-florida--here-s-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Primary Elections in Central Florida: Here&#8217;s what you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Voters need to bring a current, valid photo ID with a signature. Those who do not have the required ID will be given a provisional ballot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">\u201cIf you still have your little voter information card, you can look at that,&#8221;\u00a0Orange County Supervisor of Elections\u00a0Karen Castor Dentel said. &#8220;It tells you what district you&#8217;re in, or county commission district, or school board district. That also helps do the research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Voters who still have a vote-by-mail ballot should drop it off at their supervisor of elections office or at secure drop box locations. Those who decide to vote in person instead should bring their vote-by-mail ballot with them and return it to receive a regular ballot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">In Brevard County, Supervisor of Elections Tim Bobanic said much of the preparation happens before Election Day to make sure polling places open smoothly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">\u201cFirst thing Tuesday morning, all they have to do is power up the actual voting machines and validate all of the information that they have &#8230; so that at 7 a.m., that first voter who walks in the door is ready to cast their ballot,\u201d Bobanic said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Bobanic also recommended voters do their research, bring a sample ballot and have a plan before voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Polls are open across Central Florida for Primary Election Day, with voters casting ballots in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3140,274,139277,1015,28,30,29,2287,115,1335,139,99,278,835],"class_list":["post-374668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-decision-2026","tag-emma-delamo","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374668","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=374668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}