More than 46,000 Seminole County voters had cast ballots in the Nov. 3 general election by Friday morning, just above 13% of the roughly 343,000 voters in the county, according to figures reported by Spectrum News 13.
Registered Democrats account for nearly 19,000 of those ballots and registered Republicans for more than 17,000, the station reported. The total combines in-person early votes and vote-by-mail ballots.
Neighboring counties are at a similar level. Orange County had passed 112,000 ballots, almost 14% of its voters, and Osceola County had passed 30,000, almost 13%, according to the same report.
Statewide picture
Statewide, ballots cast topped 1.6 million in numbers the state Division of Elections posted Thursday morning, about 11.7% of the state's 13.7 million registered voters, the News Service of Florida reported.
Democrats had sent back nearly 485,000 mail ballots, compared with just under 406,000 returned by Republicans, while about 235,000 Republicans and 211,000 Democrats had voted in person at early sites, the news service said. Voters with no party affiliation had returned 212,000 mail ballots and cast about 93,000 in person.
In the 2022 midterm, 7.8 million Floridians voted, 53.8% of those registered.
