Early voting is underway.

About 1.9 million Floridians have already cast ballots eight days before election day.

The Department of State said as of Monday morning, nearly 1.4 million people had cast absentee ballots and more than 500,000 people cast ballots in person during the early voting period that started on Saturday.

The vote is almost evenly split by party between Democrats and Republicans.

The total represents nearly 16% of florida's 11.9 million voters.