{"id":375598,"date":"2026-08-19T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375598\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:14:37","slug":"leon-co-supervisor-of-elections-says-election-running-smoothly-as-county-sees-impressive-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375598\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Co. Supervisor of Elections says election running \u2018smoothly\u2019 as county sees impressive turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; Voters casted their ballots Tuesday for the primary election and the Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley said things are moving smoothly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At the elections headquarters, voters turned in their mail-in ballots or participated in emergency voting which means they weren\u2019t able to vote in their designated location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WCTV\u2019s Grace Temple spoke with Earley for the latest on the voting turnout. He said the it\u2019s been great as Leon County sees a record turnout with 38.64% of voters casting their ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cHeavy turnout, which is great, especially for a primary,\u201d Earley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch the video above for the full interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Polls are now closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To keep up with the latest news as it develops, follow WCTV on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCTV.tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wctvnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WCTVEyewitnessNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/page\/wctv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/08\/18\/leon-co-supervisor-elections-says-election-running-smoothly-county-sees-impressive-turnout\/mailto:news@wctv.tv?subject=Correction%20Needed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Write to us here<\/a>. 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(WCTV) &#8211; Voters casted their ballots Tuesday for the primary election and the Supervisor of Elections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8184,104741,151401,634,129341,115,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-375598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-election-2026","tag-grace-temple","tag-leon-co-supervisor-of-elections","tag-local","tag-mark-earley","tag-news","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375598","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=375598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}