Coronavirus: In 2020, with voters concerned about the coronavirus, mail voting increased in the March presidential primary and surged for the August state and local primaries. And interest has increased exponentially for the November presidential election. As of Friday morning, 5.2 million Florida voters had requested mail ballots, up from 3.3 million in 2016. In Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, 1.5 million people have asked for vote-by-mail ballots, compared to 850,000 in 2016.