FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: Florida Democrats are building a substantial lead in mail-in ballot requests for Novembers presidential election even as their registration advantage shrinks, but questions remain about whether that will be a boon for Joe Biden as he tries to wrest the nations largest swing state from President Donald Trump.
The Florida secretary of states office shows that 2.4 million Democrats have requested mail-in ballots compared with 1.6 million Republicans a 767,000 request advantage as the coronavirus pandemic makes some voters leery of entering a polling place. Its also a sharp change from 2016 when requests and returned mail-in ballots were evenly split. Trump narrowly won Florida over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and statewide elections are notoriously tight.
However, Republicans have gained some ground in voter registration. Both parties have about 5 million…
