Final days of early voting in Duval County, here is what the turnout looks like:

Alexus Cleavenger
·3 min read

The last chance for early voters to cast their ballots in the 2023 Duval Unitary Election is on Sunday.

City council seats are on the line, but the mayor’s race is the big race on the ballot.

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On Friday, Action News Jax checked the Supervisor of Elections website, and so far, democrats are leading early voting turnout. It reveals that Democrats have cast about 3% more ballots than republicans.

The Supervisor of Elections told Action News Jax that the parties have flipped compared to previous years and while mail ballots are favored by democrats, republicans are voting more on election day.

Early voter Mark Quesnell said early voting was a simple and easy process.

“I walked in, there were no lines at all, I walked in, went straight in, gave them my ID , got my voting paper and I was in and out probably 5 minutes,” said Quesnell.

Friday, early voting locations across Jacksonville were filled with more people than days prior, according to the Supervisor of Elections, Mike Hogan.

“There has been an uptick, the first two hours we saw 750 people an hour and it had been averaging bellow 500 the rest of the previous days, so that’s a good sign,” said Hogan.

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As of 5.p.m Friday , early voter turnout was at 11%. The original projection was about 30-to-35 percent of registered voters, which would be an increase from elections in 2015 and 2019 which also had a mayoral race.

Hogan said he won’t know if we’ll surpass early voting numbers until after Sunday. But Hogan has a theory on why it’s been slower.

“There’s a lot of new candidates, names that people don’t know and I think they are doing their homework and trying to find out about these folks before they go vote,” Hogan said.

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Hogan said they aren’t sure if it will get to the expected turnout of 30-to-35 percent, but he expects there to be an increase over the last two days of early voting.

If you haven’t early voted, you still can until Sunday.

Below are the early voting locations and the times they will be open:

  • Supervisor of Elections Main Office - 105 East Monroe Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202

  • Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

  • Saturday – Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

The rest of the locations will be open from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily through March 19th:

  • Argyle Branch Library - 7973 Old Middleburg Road South, Jacksonville, FL 32222

  • Beaches Branch Library - 600 3rd Street, Neptune Beach, FL 32266

  • Bradham & Brooks Branch Library - 1755 Edgewood Avenue West, Jacksonville, FL 32208

  • FSCJ – Deerwood Center 9911 - Old Baymeadows Road, Jacksonville, FL 32256

  • Highlands Regional Library - 1826 Dunn Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32218

  • Joseph Lee Community Center - 5120 Perry Street, Jacksonville, FL 32208

  • Legends Community Center - 5130 Soutel Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32208

  • Mandarin Branch Library - 3330 Kori Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257

  • Murray Hill United Methodist Church - 4101 College Street, Jacksonville, FL 32205

  • Oceanway Community Center - 12215 Sago Avenue West, Jacksonville, FL 32218

  • Pablo Creek Regional Library - 13295 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32246

  • Regency Square Branch Library - 9900 Regency Square Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32225

  • San Marco Branch Library - 1513 LaSalle Street, Jacksonville, FL 32207

  • South Mandarin Branch Library - 12125 San Jose Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32223

  • Southeast Regional Library - 10599 Deerwood Park Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32256

  • University Park Branch Library - 3435 University Boulevard North, Jacksonville, FL 32277

  • Webb Wesconnett Regional Library - 6887 103rd Street, Jacksonville, FL 32210

  • West Branch Library - 1425 Chaffee Road South, Jacksonville, FL 32221

  • Election day is March 21st. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. that day.

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