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Nearly 9.2 million Floridians voted by mail or at early voting sites, making up more than 82% of the ballots cast in Tuesday’s elections, according to numbers posted on the state Division of Elections website.
As of Friday morning, 4,855,487 vote-by-mail ballots had been tallied. Also, 4,332,221 people cast ballots at early voting sites. In all, the state website said more than 11.125 million ballots were cast by Florida’s 14.44 million registered voters.
President Donald Trump, who cautioned his supporters against possible voter fraud in vote-by-mail ballots (but not in Florida) won the state, but trails elsewhere in the U.S. Former Vice President Joe Biden is poised to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency as mail ballot returns in Georgia and Pennsylvania have put him in the lead.
Biden is expected to speak later Friday in Delaware in what may be a victory speech.
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Republished with permission from the News Service of Florida, with background from Florida Politics.
One comment
DisplacedCTYankee
November 7, 2020 at 7:16 am
When I moved to Floriduh six years ago I was happy that registering to vote was easy and encouraged. I’ve voted by mail ever since and my Manatee County registrar office has performed flawlessly. I congratulate them. Why anybody waits to vote in person is absolutely beyond me.
While we wait on Election Day Day Four for Pennsylvania to count the votes, Floriduh came in with results on Tuesday night. The results were not what I wanted but at least we had the results.
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