Staff Reports
The number of vote-by-mail ballots requested by voters for the November general election is creeping steadily toward one million.
The tally, as of Friday, according to the state’s Division of Elections, is 834,481. That includes ballots mailed by Florida elections supervisors to service members and others outside the country.
Registered Republicans lead Democrats by 348,139 to 327,010, a gap of 21,129.
Other party voters are at 21,505 and no-party-affiliated voters are at 137,827.
At this point, 44 of the state’s 67 counties have not yet reported ballot figures, according to the division’s data file.
Of those counties providing numbers, Pinellas County reported 204,007 ballots requested so far for the Nov. 8 election, with Hillsborough reporting 169,351, according to the division’s website.
Broward County reported 174,928.
Lawmakers recently changed the name of such ballots to “vote-by-mail” ballots from the traditional “absentee” ballots.
