In-person early voting for the Aug. 23 primary elections began in 20 Florida counties Monday, while nearly 800,000 voters had cast ballots by mail.
Early voting will be available in all counties on Saturday and is required to continue through Aug. 20. Counties could start Monday and also may offer it on Aug. 21.
The primary ballot includes races for U.S. Senate, governor, two Cabinet seats and numerous congressional and legislative races, in addition to local and judicial races.
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“Early voting is definitely a trend we are seeing,” said Jefferson County Supervisor of Elections Tyler McNeill, whose rural North Florida county began early voting Monday “We’ve seen it tick up since 2016. That is why we try to provide as many dates as possible.”
Meanwhile, as of Monday morning, 791,140 voters had cast ballots by mail. Another 3.28 million vote-by-mail ballots had not been returned.
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