Republicans are returning issued ballots more efficiently at a rate of 30.21% compared to 28.75% for Democrats. While the GOP's share of returned mail ballots has risen 1.7 percentage points since 2024, they maintain a registration advantage of over 1.54 million voters. In the 2024 cycle, Democrats held a 210,000 vote lead in mail-in ballots but eventually trailed Republicans by 1.2 million in the total turnout race.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Florida Mail Returns Top 1.06 Million With Democrats Leading by 54,915
US Politics8 hours ago
The proportion of the projected final turnout that has returned mail-in ballots in Florida has reached 14.7% as of Oct. 20. Registered Democrats lead Republicans in volume with 444,633 votes, or 41.9% of the total, compared with 389,718 votes, or 36.7%, for Republicans. The current tally of 1,061,305 total mail ballots gives Democrats a raw lead of 54,915 votes, although Democrats only nearly broke even on the first day of early in-person voting.
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