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Large Republican Turnout Expected

January 30th, 2012 by Mike Vasilinda

More than six hundred thousand Republicans have already cast early or absentee ballots and the GOP is hoping to exceed the 1.9 million Republican voters who cast a ballot in the 2008 Presidential Preference Primary. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, this is also the first election since some changes were made to the law.

Enthusiasm is high for the Republican Presidential Primary. Nat sot of horn.

Kayla Westbrook, who is President of the Young Republicans at FSU, says enthusiasm is high on campus for all the candidates.

I’m going to be graduating at the end of the year and I’m really concerned about whether I can get a job or just, you know, my future, really,” Westbrook said.

More than six hundred thousand Republicans have already cast early or absentee ballots. The GOP says that no matter how you measure it, making the primary the fourth in the nation was a big success.

Florida is everything we thought it would be based on the earlier primary date,” Brian Hughes with the Republican Party of Florida said. “Number 4 in the order, the first contest to be all Republicans, a closed contests, huge numbers of turnout, maybe 2 million or more people before this is all said and done”

This will be the first test of changes made to the voting law last year, and under those changes, college students and anyone else who has moved may not be able to cast a regular ballot.

The change will likely result in more voters being required to cast provisional ballots.

They would then have verification from the former county, the old county, that they had not already cast a ballot,” Secretary of State Kurt Browning said.

Even if Republican voters set a primary turnout record, Tuesday should be a tame day compared to four years ago. That’s when Democrats also had a heated primary and Independents were out in force voting on a property tax reduction.

In 2008, just over one point nine million Republicans voted in the Presidential Primary, handing John McCain a come-from-behind victory.

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