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Election Day 2024 in Ocala, Florida

Pabio November 6, 2024

Today is election day. Marion County voters will help decide national and state elections, as well as some key local elections, such as a new sales tax proposed to support school construction and improvements and a proposed 20-year extension of the existing 1% sales tax to fund public safety capital needs and highway projects. Stay tuned here for updates throughout the day and check ocala.com after polling stations close at 7 p.m. election results and more.

Don’t forget to check USA TODAY’s live blog.

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You must vote today at your assigned polling station, says the electoral office. You don’t know where it is? Visit votemarion.gov

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Photographer Doug Engle met with some voters on Election Day in Ocala and asked them about their votes for president. Check out what they said:

Watch: Voters in Ocala, Fla., explain why they support Harris and Trump

Voters in Ocala, Florida, explain their reasons for voting for president.

Polling stations opened today at 7 a.m. According to the elections office supervisor, as of 9:30 a.m., 19,113 people had voted. Check out Doug Engle’s photos from Tuesday morning:

This story provides links to preview articles on Marion County tax measures, proposed constitutional amendments, judicial merit retention elections and other races.

—Jim Ross

Marion has 265,806 registered voters. Tuesday at 8:20 a.m., 55% of them had already voted either in advance or by mail.

During early voting, which took place from Oct. 21 to Nov. 2,101,946 people voted. Of these, 60,566 (59.4%) were Republicans, 22,113 (21.7%) were Democrats, 16,678 (16.4%) had no party affiliation, and 2,589 (2.5%) had an affiliation with another party.

Mail-in ballots must arrive at the elections office today by 7 p.m. As of 8:20 a.m., the elections office had received 44,322 absentee ballots. Of those, 18,219 came from registered Democrats, 18,030 from registered Republicans, 7,099 from voters with no party affiliation, and 974 from voters affiliated with another party.

—Jim Ross

2024 Florida Election Results: President, Amendments, Congress and State Legislature

Here’s how Marion County voted for president in recent elections:

2020: Trump won 62.4% of the vote in Marion County and Joe Biden won 36.6%.

2016: Trump got 61.3% and Hillary Clinton 35.3%

2012: Mitt Romney obtains 57.7% of the vote against 41.4% for Barack Obama.

—Jim Ross

Marion County Election Results 2024

Marion County voters are being asked to approve a new sales tax to support schools and expand an existing sales tax to support public safety capital needs and road projects. Learn more about these ballot measures here And here.

—Jim Ross

(This story has been updated to add new information)

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