Posted on 10/22/2022 8:24:24 PM PDT by 11th_VA
As Florida prepares for early voting to begin on Monday, vote-by-mail turnout so far indicates a higher ballot return rate for Republicans, though more Democrats have requested absentee ballots.
More than 1 million Floridians had voted by mail as of Friday afternoon, according to the Florida Division of Elections. That’s just shy of a quarter of the roughly 4.2 million voters who asked for ballots to be delivered through the postal service.
Nearly 29% of Republicans who requested to vote-by-mail in the upcoming general election have returned their ballots, compared to about 24% of Democrats, according to data tracked by the state.
While those mail ballot numbers could indicate more enthusiasm among Republicans, it’s still too soon to draw conclusions about overall turnout in the Nov. 8 election, said Michael McDonald, political science professor and voter turnout researcher at the University of Florida.
“It’s a little too early to say with definitiveness that Republicans are more energized, more active in terms of returning their ballots, but it could be,’‘ McDonald said, especially as voting by mail has become a partisan issue following the 2020 election...
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I agree as well and I think it cost Trump votes in 2020 when he discouraged mail-in voting in the middle of a pandemic.
There will always be people who have every intention of going to the polls on Election Day and then for whatever reason, just don't make it.
Democrats, on the other hand, were like, "Vote by mail! It's so easy!" And people did.
If Florida allows counting prior to election day, the Desantis and Crist votes can be used to approximate the number of people in each party who returns the ballots. I say approximate, because I suspect that even some Democrats are casting votes for DeSantis this year.
I’m sending in my ballot this coming week... GO DeSantis...
News to this Floridian...
ABSENTEE
VOTES
MATTER
Early in person voting starts tomorrow. I plan to be there,
I will deposit my Vote By Mail Ballot in a secure box with an attendant at an Early Voting site this week. A few days later I will track that Ballot to learn when it was counted.
Hiya, Julie! Glad to see you are still in the fight. Good advice — “Trust but verify”, to quote Reagan. Could you please post the link for where you go to verify your vote was actually counted?
Here’s the link:
https://www.sarasotavotes.gov/Voter-Information/My-Voter-Status
I take mine to Early Voting site and deposit it in the locked attended box. Then I track it on the SOE’s website! Been doing that for many years!
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