Greg Fox

By a two-to-one margin, Florida voters are choosing vote-by-mail balloting over early voting as their preferred method, with the primary in a key midterm election year coming up Tuesday.

Because early voting has been popular in the past, Orange County added two new locations, and has a total of 27.

More than 1.9 million Floridians have already voted as election offices sort mail ballots ahead of Tuesday's primary.

Voters will have to wait a few more days to find out who will be the republican nominee for Congress in District 11. A recount will likely be ordered by the Florida Secretary of State's Division of Elections in the coming days.

Something new surfaced in this election. For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the most popular way to vote in this primary was in person on election day.

Anson Gallaway stepped forward Friday in front of Ninth Circuit Judge Michael Kraynick to enter new pleas in two cases, a felony and a misdemeanor, both related to the business of unlicensed contracting.

District 11, which covers Sumter, part of Lake and part of Orange counties, is an open seat, since Congressman Dan Webster is retiring in January.

Joe Strada’s slim lead over Carey Baker survived a three-county recount, setting up a November race for Florida’s District 11 seat.

With Tuesday’s announcement of the Republican ticket in the race for Florida governor, Miami Springs state Sen. Bryan Avila brings more than the obvious advantage to Byron Donalds’ bid for the state’s top executive office.

Florida — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier have pushed back against allegations from a CBS Miami report claiming