JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Duval County voters are heading to the polls today, Aug. 18, to cast ballots in the Primary Election and the Special First Unitary Election.<\/p>\n
Polls opened at 7 a.m. and will remain open until 7 p.m., according to Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland.<\/p>\n
Voters must cast their ballots at their assigned polling place. Florida is a closed primary state, meaning voters may only vote in the primary for the political party in which they are registered.<\/p>\n
All registered voters may participate in nonpartisan races, including contests for judges and school board members.<\/p>\n
The Special First Unitary Election for City Council At-Large Group One appears on all ballots across Duval County. Precinct information is listed on each voter information card and can also be found on sample ballots or online at duvalelections.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n A list of all polling locations can be found in the PDF below:<\/p>\n Voters must present a current and valid photo identification with a signature to vote. Acceptable forms of photo ID include a Florida driver license, U.S. passport, military ID or student ID. If the photo ID does not include a signature, voters will be asked to provide an additional ID that does.<\/p>\n Voters with questions about the Primary Election or the Special First Unitary Election can visit duvalelections.gov<\/a> or call the Duval County Elections Office at 904-255-8683.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Duval County voters are heading to the polls today, Aug. 18, to cast ballots in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,151239,1039,28,348,151241,17094,116,351,118,117,34427,349,151240,44418,350,151238,346,345],"class_list":["post-375033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-closed-primary","tag-duval-county","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-how-to-vote","tag-id","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jerry-holland","tag-northeast-florida","tag-polling-locations","tag-primary-election","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-special-first-unitary-election","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375033","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=375033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}