5.7 ballots cast 6 days before election – NBC 6 South Florida

More than 5.7 million people in Florida have voted so far ahead of next week’s election, according to new state statistics.

Data on the Florida Division of Elections website showed that 3,340,065 people had cast ballots at early voting sites, while 2,357,922 had voted by mail.

A total of 2,564,067 Republicans and 1,896,098 Democrats had voted as of Wednesday morning, along with 1,112,145 unaffiliated voters and 125,677 third-party voters.

As of Wednesday morning, the unofficial turnout in Miami-Dade was 581,641, with 357,809 votes cast in early voting and 223,832 cast by mail, according to the state’s website.

Republicans in Miami-Dade had cast 228,902 ballots, compared to 196,822 for Democrats, 145,502 independents and 10,388 for “others.”

In Broward, unofficial turnout was 491,775, including 283,624 by early voting and 208,092 by mail, the county supervisor of elections reported.

Democrats led in Broward with 241,284 votes cast, compared to 128,331 cast by Republicans, 112,586 independents and 9,574 “others.”