{"id":375328,"date":"2026-08-19T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375328\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:32:12","slug":"florida-primary-broward-supervisor-of-elections-reports-16-24-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375328\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida primary: Broward supervisor of elections reports 16.24% voter turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 6:51 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 19, 2026 at 12:21 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TAMARAC, Fla.  \u2014 Joe Scott, Broward County\u2019s supervisor of elections, reported that the county\u2019s primary voter turnout was at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\">16.24%<\/a> on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/19\/primarias-en-florida-supervisor-de-elecciones-de-broward-reporta-participacion-electoral-de-1624\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/19\/primarias-en-florida-supervisor-de-elecciones-de-broward-reporta-participacion-electoral-de-1624\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward County has <a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\">346<\/a> precincts, and more than <a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\">1.35<\/a> million registered voters. As of about 6:45 p.m.,<a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\"> 217,520<\/a> had cast ballots in Broward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\">35%<\/a> voted by mail, about <a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\">28%<\/a> voted early, and about <a href=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/my.browardvotes.gov\/TEDElectionLink\/TurnOutWidget\/dashboard\/view\/turnout-summary\">36.6%<\/a> voted on Election Day, according to data released by Scott before the polls closed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The polls opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/08\/18\/aug-18-2026-primary-election-in-broward-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2026\/08\/18\/aug-18-2026-primary-election-in-broward-county\/\">VIEW RESULTS TONIGHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Saira Anwer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/c1f7fa2d-907b-4fe7-80.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Saira Anwer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Saira Anwer joined the Local 10 News team in July 2018. Saira is two-time Emmy-nominated reporter and comes to South Florida from Madison, Wisconsin, where she was working as a reporter and anchor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 6:51 PM Updated:\u00a0August 19, 2026 at 12:21 AM TAMARAC, Fla. \u2014 Joe Scott, Broward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-375328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375328","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=375328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}