If you haven’t already – it’s time to register to vote in advance of Florida’s November 6 general election.
In Florida, the deadline to register is Tuesday, October 9.
Tuesday marks National Voter Registration Day, when promotional campaigns across the country encourage citizens to make sure they've registered to vote.
There have been many local and national voter registration drives throughout the years. Among them was a 1964 stamp campaign (pictured) by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
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Google is dedicating its homepage to a voter registration drive with a new Doodle (pictured) for Tuesday's National Voter Registration Day.
You can get started on registering to vote in Florida right now by filling out this Register To Vote Florida online form.
As of Tuesday morning, Duval County had 600,415 active register voters with 244,634 Democrats and 219,876 Republicans, according to the Duval County Supervisor of Elections. Statewide there were 13,093,881 active voters as of August 31. With 4.6 million Republicans and 4.8 million Democrats, according to the Florida Division of Elections.
Duval County Voter Statistics Breakdown (current as of 9/25/18)
More voter registration information is also available from each county’s Supervisor of Elections:
Bill Bortzfield can be reached at bbortzfield@wjct.org, 904-358-6349 or on Twitter at @BortzInJax.
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