Florida Democrats Voting By Mail In Big Numbers

Oct 22, 2016

The Democrats grass roots campaign to get Hillary Clinton supporters to vote by mail appears to be paying off.

Florida Republicans have traditionally been very successful in having their supporters vote by mail. Democrats, not so much.

Democrats customarily do better with early voting, which starts next week around the state.

This year, it is a different vote by mail story.

As of Oct. 21, the two parties are returning their mail ballots in roughly the same numbers.

In more Democratic Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties, thousands more Democrats are voting by mail than Republicans.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that Clinton will have the Florida race won before Election Day.

There are some storm clouds in the statistics for Donald Trump on the horizon.

Sumter County is the home of Republican stronghold The Villages. It had only 5,574 Republican mailed votes received as of today’s figures. There are roughly 48,593 registered Republicans in Sumter so those voting by mail represents roughly 11 percent of the Rs.

Democrats had the same voting percentages, roughly 11 percent –2,670 voted ballots out of 24,413 registered Ds .

It appears that Trump’s lack of a ground operation is hurting him. How bad it hurts we will only know on November 8.

Florida

(Mail Votes Received)

Republicans — 416,778
Democrat — 399,434
Other — 26,209
Indep — 154,702

Broward

Republican — 44,173
Democrat — 100, 331
Other — 2,688
Indep — 38,559

Miami-Dade

Republican — 86,831
Democrat — 112,905
Other — 3,429
Indep — 65,451

Palm Beach

Republican — 40,818
Democrat — 71,853
Other — 4,283
Indep — 27,940

[vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”turquoise”]By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat.com, excerpt posted on SouthFloridaReporter.com Oct. 22, 2016[/vc_message]

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