It's on! Florida presidential primary ballots already going out

[RandySF]

hough the official Florida presidential preference primary date isn’t until March 17, thousands of Florida primary ballots already are in the mail.

Yet Florida Democratic voters have barely had any sightings of any of the 12 Democratic presidential candidates who are officially running in Florida.

Saturday, 45 days out from primary election day, is the statewide deadline for county Supervisors of Elections offices to mail the first round of ballots to absent military or overseas voters. Some counties, such as Orange County, have comfortably beaten the deadline, mailing out the ballots earlier this week. Hillsborough plans to mail and email out about 2,000 Friday.

Supervisors won’t tally how many ballots are going out in this first wave until next week. In the 2018 general election, Florida Supervisors mailed approximately 75,000 ballots to absent military and oveseas voters, but that was an election in which all registered voters were eligible. This time, independent and third-party voters are not eligible and will not get ballots, unless they reside in cities that are having municipal elections on March 17.

Ordinary mail ballots can go out as early as next Thursday, and many will go out immediately on that date. For the 2016 presidential primaries, more than 1.8 million mail ballots were sent out.



https://floridapolitics.com/archives/317598-its-on-florida-presidential-primary-ballots-already-going-out

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