In Broward County, 44,216 people voted Sunday, the highest total from the two weeks of early voting this year. The previous 2016 high, from Friday, was 36,276. On Saturday, 35,905 Broward residents voted, also despite persistent rain.
The day brought Broward’s total number of early votes over two weeks to 426,498. Another 188,489 people had cast ballots by mail, for a total of 614,987. Compared to 2012 totals, that’s a nearly 47 percent jump.
Broward numbers should mollify Democrats who worried about lackluster turnout during the first weekend of early voting, which suggested that their supporters — especially African Americans —were staying home. To counter the apparent indifference, Hillary Clinton visited Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, President Barack Obama dropped in on Miami on Thursday, and Clinton returned Saturday, to Pembroke Pines.
On Sunday, a black-church-driven voting day known as Souls to the Polls, Pines reported some of the longest waits to vote. Some of the county’s 21 polls closed at 7 p.m. with hundreds of people still in line. They were allowed to cast ballots.
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