Black voters in Florida are using in-person early voting at twice the rate they did in 2022.
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Deadline: White HouseOct 28, 2026
The claim matches McDonald's statement, as reported by Bloomberg and repeated in the Yahoo and Sykes pieces, that Black in-person early voting in Florida roughly doubled from the same point in 2022.
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… Ballots cast by Black voters in North Carolina are up 63% from the same point in 2022. In Georgia, they're up 15%, while ballots from white voters are down 3%. Black voters in Florida are using in-person early voting at twice the rate they did in 2022. That's according to Michael McDonald of the University of Florida Election Lab. A week into early voting in Louisiana, Black voters have already cast more early votes than they did in all of 2022, while early voting by white voters is flat, according to data …
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Supports. Yahoo's report on McDonald's tracking says in-person early voting among Black and Hispanic voters in Florida has approximately doubled compared with the same point in 2022.[2]
Supports. The Sykes newsletter quotes McDonald of the UF Election Lab saying Black voters in Florida are using in-person early voting at twice the 2022 rate, matching the claim's wording.[3]
Context. HuffPost and BBC report higher Black early-vote participation in several states, including Florida, but do not give a Florida-specific doubling figure.[4][5]
Context. The UF Election Lab tracker page shows no readable Black-voter breakdown, so the official record cannot independently confirm the doubling figure.[1]
Context. Florida's overall early vote was about 5.2 million by the close of early voting, nearly 300,000 above the 2022 pace. This is consistent with a surge but does not measure the Black-voter rate directly.[6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 3 not rated, 1 tier 1, 1 tier 2
- 1» 2026 Early Voting UF Election Labelection.lab.ufl.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Early Voting Surges Across South - Democrats, Minority Voters ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3“The Fierce Urgency of Now”charliesykes.substack.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4More than 43 million ballots cast so far in midterms early voting surgebbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 5Democrats Are Voting Differently This Election — And In Record Numbershuffpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 6Florida early voting ends with turnout ahead of 2022 midterm pacebaynews9.com · not rated · cited for: context
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Related claims
- Ballots cast by Black voters in North Carolina are up 63% from the same point in 2022.True
- In Louisiana, Black voters have cast more early votes in one week than they did in all of 2022.True
- The Black vote share in North Carolina early voting is almost double what it has been in the past.False
- The proportion of Black voters in the Louisiana early vote has increased from 26% in 2022 to 34% in 2026.True
- Hispanic voter participation in early voting is 41% higher than at this point in 2022.Mixed