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Turnout At Florida Primaries Expected To Surpass 2012

Gaston De Cardenas
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Miami Herald
Early voters had to wait up to an hour this weekend at the Coral Gables Library, in Miami-Dade County.

TALLAHASSEE 

 Voters across Florida head to the polls Tuesday to put the finishing touch on a marathon statewide primary election that began more than a month ago.

After enduring an onslaught of TV ads, mail and phone calls, voters will help choose six members of Congress, dozens of state legislators and scores of county officeholders.

They also will nominate candidates for U.S. Senate and decide a ballot proposal to add a property tax break for solar energy equipment to the state Constitution.

Total turnout, while steady, has been slow but is expected to surpass turnout in the past four statewide primaries.

Through Sunday, the 14th and final day of early voting, 1.7 million voters had cast ballots, two-thirds of them by mail and the rest at early voting centers.

In the last primary in a presidential election year, in 2012, the turnout was 2.3 million.

You can read more at our news partner, the Miami Herald

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