A voting bloc of prison inmates could play a role in deciding who gets 23 Republican convention delegates from Puerto Rico.
Out of 11,500 Puerto Rican prisoners, at least 6,500 are registered to vote and
were allowed to cast absentee ballots on Friday. And with only about 25,000 people expected to show up for Sunday's voting, they could make a difference.
The large share of inmates is partly due to a sharp cutback in the number of general polling places this year, fallout from the island's budget crisis. There are only 110 across the territory, down from 3,226 four years ago, when Mitt Romney swept the delegate table.
The only other people allowed to submit absentee ballots in the territory are members of the military, but party officials said they did not yet know how many of those had been cast.
The polls in Puerto Rico are going to be open on Sunday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET.
Marco Rubio is expected to win, with Donald Trump coming in second place and Ted Cruz coming in third.
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