Nearly 1.9 Million Votes Already Cast in Florida

784,444 ballots cast by Democrats and 774,304 ballots cast by Republicans

Monday, Oct 29, 2012 | Updated 10:40 AM EDT

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Early voters wait in line to vote in the presidential election on the first day of early voting at a polling station setup in the Miami-Dade County elections department building on October 27, 2012 in Miami, Florida.

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About 1.9 million Floridians have already cast ballots eight days before Election Day.

The Department of State said as of Monday morning, nearly 1.4 million people had cast absentee ballots and more than 500,000 people cast ballots in person during the early voting period that began Saturday.

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The vote is nearly evenly split by party, with 784,444 ballots cast by Democrats and 774,304 ballots cast by Republicans. More than 307,000 ballots have been cast by voters who don't belong to either major party.

The total represents nearly 16 percent of Florida's 11.9 million voters.

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