How Many People Voted Early in Florida? More Than 5 Million Ballots Cast With One Early Voting Day Left

Florida's early vote has passed the 5 million mark. As of Saturday, October 31, 5,090,596 ballots had been cast in the state, according to the On Point Politics tracker built from state election office counts via civicAPI and read in full by this desk: 3,199,962 of them in person and 1,890,634 returned by mail. A second tracker, CallTheMap, put the through-October 31 count at 4,956,134 - trackers vary slightly with update times and source files, but both put Florida at or past the 5 million line this desk reported as 4.9 million at midday.

By party registration, registered Republicans account for 40.7 percent of the ballots cast so far, registered Democrats for 37.7 percent, and independents and third-party voters for 21.6 percent, the On Point tracker reports. Registration shows who has voted, not how they voted - the ballots themselves stay sealed until they are counted. The pace is running 13 percent ahead of past years on the tracker's comparison, and the total already equals 100 percent of the 5.06 million early ballots cast in all of 2022.

What is left is the finish. Sunday, November 1, is the final day of early voting in Miami-Dade and Broward counties: Miami-Dade's 28 sites are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and any registered county voter can use any site. Completed mail ballots can still be returned at an early voting site during voting hours on Sunday.

After Sunday, the only remaining way to vote is in person on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3 - polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Election Day voters must use their assigned precinct. Voters can confirm their precinct and sample ballot at votemiamidade.gov.