With just two days until Election Day, it was a busy final day of early voting in South Florida on Sunday.
On Sunday evening, data from Florida's Division of Elections showed over 7.8 million people had already cast their ballots during the early voting period.
That includes people who are voting early in person, as well as those who have already voted by mail.
Nearly 2.5 million of the early voters were registered Republicans while about 1.3 million were Democrats. Just over 1 million had no party affiliation, data showed.
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Over 800,000 of those early ballots were cast in Miami-Dade County. NBC6 cameras captured a steady flow of voters at the Westchester Regional Library on Sunday afternoon.
There were long lines of voters spotted in Broward as well.
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott told NBC6 that the early-voter turnout was high in Broward.
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“So far, 430,000 people voted early in person and we have had 239,000 people who have already returned their vote by mail ballots,” Scott said Sunday afternoon.
Scott also noted that there are close to a half a million registered voters in Broward who have either not voted early or returned their vote-by-mail ballots, and will have to either head to their designated precincts on Tuesday, or bring their vote-by-mail ballots into an Office of Supervisor of Elections.
“You know it’s a big question mark who is actually going to show up and participate but we are hoping for the best,” Scott said.
As of Sunday morning, voter turnout was at 56% which is higher than what officials saw in Broward for the 2020 election.
Early voting in both Broward and Miami-Dade counties ended Sunday night at 7 p.m.
On Tuesday, there will be 358 precincts that will be open in Broward by 7 a.m.
