Seminole County Passes 111,000 Ballots Before the Final Early-Voting Day, With Turnout Running Ahead of 2022
The canvassing board heard Friday that 111,472 Seminole voters had already cast ballots as of 7 p.m. on October 30 — a count that has nearly tripled in a week — and the board's next sittings run straight through Election Night.
Seminole County's early electorate kept climbing through the final week. Supervisor of Elections Amy Pennock told the county canvassing board on Friday, October 30, that 111,472 ballots had been cast as of 7 p.m. that evening, and gave the board comparative turnout figures against prior cycles showing the county running ahead of 2022. Seminole is one of the three counties at the core of this station's coverage area, and its pace mirrors the statewide surge the Politics Desk has tracked all week.
The week's slope is steep in the board's own series of reports: 40,472 ballots cast as of the morning of October 23, at 11.41% turnout, then 66,811 as of October 25, at 19.2% — and now 111,472 with the final early-voting day, today, still to run. Seminole's seven early voting sites close the early period today before the county moves to assigned-precinct voting on Tuesday.
What happens next is procedural and public. The canvassing board — County Judge Cassandra Buie as chair, County Commissioner Andria Herr and Supervisor Pennock — sits again Monday, November 2 at 9 a.m. and Tuesday, November 3 at 3 p.m., followed by the canvassing of election-night returns, all at the elections office at 1500 East Airport Boulevard in Sanford. Under Florida law, no results are released until after the polls close on November 3. The board then returns Thursday, November 5 for provisional ballots and cures, with official results scheduled for Friday, November 13.
