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Over 1 Million Absentee Ballots Returned, Slightly More From GOP
October 26, 2012
State election officials said 1.05 million absentee ballots had been returned to local supervisors of elections by Thursday.
In 2008, 1.85 million voters cast absentee ballots, and Republicans held about a 15 percentage point lead. This year, Republicans continue to lead in absentee returns, As of Thursday, elections officials had received 467,820 absentee ballots from self-designated GOP voters. That’s 44.5 percent. Democratic-identified voted had returned 413,516, or 39.4 percent of the total. Another 169,000, or 16.1 percent, did not designate either party on their ballots.
By The News Service of Florida
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