JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- There's little interest in early voting in the city's upcoming election that will be held on Tuesday, March 22.

So far 31,657 ballots have been cast when absentee votes are included.

Early voting wraps up this weekend at the ten different polling locations.  This weekend the polling places are only open from noon to 4 p.m.

Early voting is held at 8 regional libraries and the downtown and Norwood Avenue locations of the Supervisor of Elections.

Thursday was the most active day in the city with 2,150 people casting their votes.

Voters are being asked to decide who should be the next mayor with six candidate names on the ballot and four write-in candidates. Several city council races are generating interest as well.

Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland is revising his projection on turnout for this election.  He had previously predicted a turnout of 48-50%.

The Tea Party in Action’s Executive Director dropped off “Double-Dipped” Chocolate strawberries to Rick Mullaney’s campaign office at 2:00pm Monday asking him to sign a pledge to not “Double-Dip” as mayor.

Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland announces that the courtesy of curbside voting for physically handicapped voters is no longer permitted.
 
Curbside Voting was a courtesy the Supervisor of Elections staff would provide to voters who were unable to come into a precinct because of physical limitations. To assist these voters on Election Day, two precinct poll workers of different political parties would carry a ballot out of the precinct to the voter. Once the voter had marked his or her ballot both precinct poll workers would cast the ballot through the Optical Scanner like all other voters.