Early in-person voting began Monday in 52 of Florida’s 67 counties, with people in Miami-Dade, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties waiting in line in rain squalls to cast their ballots.

Lines had subsided by mid-morning in those urban precincts. Hillsborough County reported 2,015 voters cast ballots within the first hour of early voting, and the pace is expected to stay steadily brisk throughout the two-week early voting period that ends Nov. 1 – two days before Election Day.