Floridians request more than 5 million vote-by-mail ballots

Florida vote-by-mail ballots

TALAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s Department of State reported Saturday that it has already received more than 6,600 vote-by-mail ballots and more than 5 million others have been requested.

That could put Florida on a pace to double the number of people who voted by mail in the 2016 presidential election. In 2016, 2.7 million voted by mail.

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This year, more than 2.3 million Democrats have requested vote-by-mail ballots, compared to nearly 1.6 million Republicans.

More than 1.1 million people not registered with either major party have requested ballots to vote by mail.

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