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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/more-than-16-million-early-votes-cast-in-florida-breaking-record-8318398

Early voting wrapped up in Florida this weekend, and the number of Floridians who headed to the polls before Election Day set a new record. On the Democratic side, early and absentee voting was up more than 200 percent since the 2008 primary. For Republicans, the number was up roughly 50 percent since the 2012 primary.

That's a total of more than 1,637,464 votes already cast in the presidential primaries on both sides of the aisle.

Notable is the increased turnout of Hispanic Democrats in early voting. They make up 10.23 percent of votes already cast on the Democratic side, compared to just 8.27 percent in 2008.

Early voting is still a relatively new feature of democracy. The state began the practice in 2004 as part of several election reforms enacted in the state after the 2000 election debacle.

This is the first presidential election held after Gov. Rick Scott signed a 2013 bill into law expanding the hours of early voting. The exact hours of early voting are determined on the county level. For federal races, early voting can begin as soon as 15 days before the election. That may explain, in part, why the early vote total is up across the board.

Though, early voting isn't good news for candidates hoping to make a last-minute splash in the race. Polling takes early voters into account, making their results more accurate than in other states without early voting. That's good news for current state frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Re: More Than 1.6 Million Early Votes Cast In Florida, Breaking Record
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 06:20:55 pm »
Early votes may signal a strong day for Trump (depending on when they were cast).
In several other States, we saw early votes go for him, then late deciders or those who voted on election day go against him.

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Re: More Than 1.6 Million Early Votes Cast In Florida, Breaking Record
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2016, 06:29:53 pm »
Early votes may signal a strong day for Trump (depending on when they were cast).
In several other States, we saw early votes go for him, then late deciders or those who voted on election day go against him.

Notably, WTA Missouri has no early voting.
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Re: More Than 1.6 Million Early Votes Cast In Florida, Breaking Record
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2016, 06:59:20 pm »
I live in the LA region of Florida.  Big Military contingent. Plus a large redneck faction out in the sticks where city folk and transplants are wise to not venture.... neither here nor there cuz bubba don't vote, but not seeing fanitcal support for the NY bully down here..  Lots of Cruz support.   Will be interesting to see how these countys go on election night.