SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The early voting deadline is near for Tuesday’s presidential preference primary election.

Saturday is the last day to cast your ballots early in several Central Florida counties, including Seminole County.

With a busy election year ahead, only registered Republicans can vote in Tuesday’s presidential preference primary.

Florida Democrats already submitted President Joe Biden’s name.

Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Chris Anderson said it’s important for his staff to prepare now ahead of the November election.

“Election Day on Tuesday will be a run-up because you’re going to have, hopefully, all 82 of those same precincts on Election Day in November, and you want to make sure to stay in contact with the polling place location, and if it changes, you get that information, so your polling places can open up properly at 7 a.m.,” he said.

Anderson said although early voter turnout in the county has been relatively low, they’ve seen a pretty good turnout in Vote-By-Mail ballots.

“Vote-By-Mail has been higher than what we expected, we sent out close to 16,000 Vote-By-Mail ballots and canvassed about 9,000 Vote-By-Mail ballots, so Vote-By-Mail has been a very high turnout and that’s been very good. Early (voting) is still low, but we still have Election Day,” said Anderson.

Additionally, Seminole County will have Spanish-speaking workers available on Election Day, which is a federal law in the county.

Anderson said with every election comes an opportunity to grow as a team.

“Each election, you learn something new about your processes and how they work, especially if you consider instituting a new change and see how it went,” he said. “An example for us, we sent out a new binder. We sent it out during early voting just to see how it worked in the setting, and it worked really well,” said Anderson.

Orange and Osceola counties will have until Sunday, March 17, to cast their ballot early.