First vote-by-mail ballots for 2026 Florida primaries have already been returned

Supervisors of elections throughout Florida have until Thursday to send vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots to domestic voters who have requested them in advance of the Aug. 18 primary elections.

Mail ballots have already been sent to overseas voters, and so far 477 have been returned, according to the Florida Division of Elections website.

A 2021 election law requires voters to request mail ballots at the end of each general election year. As of Monday afternoon, more than 1.1 million registered voters have requested vote-by-mail ballots in advance of the August primary and Democratic voters have made the most requests to date.

So far, 523,083 registered Democratic voters in Florida have requested vote-by-mail ballots, compared to 391,149 registered Republicans. An additional 217,849 Non-Party-Affiliated voters and 25,193 from other political parties have made such requests.



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