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As Florida eclipses 2016 early vote totals, Democratic turnout lags in Miami-Dade
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News Date | Tuesday, October 27, 2020 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | With one week to go before Nov. 3, Florida has already surpassed its pre-Election Day voting totals from 2016.
On Tuesday, as voters continued streaming into early voting sites and elections officials tallied new mail ballots, the state blew past the 2016 total of about 6.6 million votes cast before Election Day, thanks in large part to a record 3.9 million mail ballots processed so far. A total of almost 6.8 million ballots had been cast in Florida by late Tuesday.
But while statewide turnout has been impressive, turnout in Miami-Dade County — among Democrats in particular — has been lagging somewhat. Entering Tuesday, about 45% of all registered voters in Florida had cast ballots, including 51% of Democrats, 46% of Republicans and 34% of independents, according to the U.S. Elections Project.
In Miami-Dade, where mail ballots went out on the last possible day, the turnout was less than 46% of registered voters Tuesday, state data shows. That includes 52% of Republicans, 47% of Democrats and 37% of independents. |
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