{"id":375484,"date":"2026-08-19T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375484\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:48:24","slug":"florida-primary-miami-dade-supervisor-of-elections-reports-18-8-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375484\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida primary: Miami-Dade supervisor of elections reports 18.8% voter turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM<\/p>\n

Updated:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM<\/p>\n

Justice Department deploys 4 civil rights attorneys to monitor polls in Miami-Dade County<\/p>\n

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade County\u2019s supervisor of elections, reported that the primary\u2019s voter turnout increased from 12.5% on Tuesday morning to 18.8%<\/a> on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n

Four civil rights attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice<\/a> were monitoring the polls during the primary elections in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very confident that everything is going to be just fine,\u201d Garcia said about the DOJ\u2019s announcement<\/a> reporting that the \u201cmonitoring initiative\u201d was \u201caimed at promoting transparency and an open flow of communication between poll observers and election monitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to unofficial voter turnout data, 243,225<\/a> cast their ballots, including 106,278<\/a> who voted by mail, 78,483<\/a> who voted on Election Day, and 58,364<\/a> who voted early. <\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County has 772 precincts<\/a> that opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County has more than 1.28 million registered voters<\/a>, including about 455,470 Republicans and 407,910 Democrats, according to the latest data released by Garcia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Jeff Derderian is an Emmy Award-winning reporter with more than two decades of experience uncovering the truth and holding the powerful accountable. <\/p>\n

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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 6:31 PM Updated:\u00a0August 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM Justice Department deploys 4 civil rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-375484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375484","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=375484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}