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Mitch PerryJuly 15, 2016

Florida’s primary election takes place Tuesday, Aug. 30, but early voting will begin days, or in some cases weeks, earlier, depending on where you live in the Sunshine State. Here are the dates and some starting times for Florida’s largest counties. In Miami-Dade, Duval, Hillsborough and Palm Beach counties, early voting takes place for the maximum 14 days, Monday, Aug. […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 7, 2016

Worth noting about early voting trends in Duval County in 2016: The GOP has a huge edge thus far, despite there being 21,000 more Democrats than Republicans in the county. As of 5 p.m. Monday, 29,862 Republican votes had been tallied, versus just 24,582 on the Democratic side. That advantage was in absentee ballots. Early […]

Ryan RayMarch 7, 2016

U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham cast her ballot in the Democratic presidential primary election on Monday while back in her home district in Tallahassee during the brief one-week Congressional recess. Her choice: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I believe she has the empathy, passion, experience, and desire to bring us together,” said Graham, hitting a […]

Peter SchorschJuly 28, 2015

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has already raised more than $12 million for his White House bid. Outside groups aligned with Rubio have raised twice that. In other words, there’s little doubt that Rubio’s White House bid has the financial resources to last (at least) until Florida’s March 15 presidential primary. And yet … How soon […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 15, 2015

Slowly but surely, the Democratic advantage over the Republican side in raw votes continues to increase with two and a half days left in early voting in Duval County. As of 1 p.m. on Friday, with about 87,000 votes cast, Democrats led Republicans by a margin of about 1,300 votes, 39,175 to 37,912. “Other” votes, […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 7, 2015

For the third straight day, more than 4,000 early votes were cast in Duval County on Wednesday, and the overall trend continues Democratic, as the GOP advantage in absentee ballots continues to erode. In total, 4,268 votes were cast Wednesday across Duval County, for a total of 13,250 votes during the three-day period. The leading […]

Melissa RossMay 4, 2015

Jacksonville’s African-American faith leadership assembled at the Gateway Mall early voting precinct Monday morning to urge people to get to the polls — in particular to combat crime and gang activity in the city. “The current crime, gangs and community unrest in Jacksonville directly relate to public policy and lack of justice that we can […]

A.G. GancarskiMarch 13, 2015

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On Friday’s episode of 25 Minutes of Power with Apostle Kimberly Daniels, the Jacksonville at large city councilwoman addressed persistent rumors about an incident at a Northside polling place Monday, the first day of early voting. It came on her daily religious broadcast as part of a wide-ranging discussion that touched on many other issues as she sought […]

Melissa RossMarch 9, 2015

Even though turnout is only expected to be around 30 percent and polls show the majority of voters aren’t tuned into the candidates or the races, early voting gets underway today in Duval County leading up to the March 24 Unitary Election. At stake: the mayor’s and sheriff’s offices, along with a slew of City Council seats […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorFebruary 23, 2015

Early voting for Tampa municipal elections starts Monday at seven locations citywide. It runs through March 1. Election Day is March 3. Officials expect voter turnout this election to be low despite more absentee ballots being returned than the previous municipal election. That’s because there’s not a lot of action on the ballot. There won’t […]

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Early voting for Florida’s Aug. 30 primary depends on where you live

Turnout in Duval County shows big GOP edge, Democrat enthusiasm gap

Gwen Graham votes early for Hillary Clinton in Tallahassee

Peter Schorsch: Marco Rubio’s favorite son mantle wearing thin

Duval Democrats near 1,300 vote lead in Jacksonville election

Duval Democrats make up ground after 3 days of early voting

Vote to get social justice, reduce crime, Jax Baptist ministers urge

Kim Daniels breaks silence on polling place incident

Early voting underway in Jacksonville

Early voting begins in Tampa but turnout expectation is low