{"id":32838,"date":"2023-06-15T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32838"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:00:39","slug":"lori-edwards-will-seek-her-seventh-term-as-polk-county-supervisor-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/06\/15\/lori-edwards-will-seek-her-seventh-term-as-polk-county-supervisor-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Edwards will seek her seventh term as Polk County Supervisor of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards plans to pursue a seventh term.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lori-Edwards-Digital.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32839\" width=\"207\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lori-Edwards-Digital.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lori-Edwards-Digital-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lori-Edwards-Digital-768x960.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edwards, 66, announced Wednesday that she will run for re-election next year. First elected in 2000, the Winter Haven resident said she has conducted more than 200 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edwards easily defeated challenger Debbie Hannifan in the nonpartisan election of 2020, capturing 78% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a challenging responsibility, and I have lots of energy and enthusiasm for the job,\u201d Edwards said in the announcement. \u201cMost importantly, I have the expertise to conduct elections that Polk\u2019s voters can be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edwards said her accomplishments include conducting annual voter registration drives in high schools and opening nine early voting sites for countywide elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards plans to pursue a seventh term. Edwards, 66, announced Wednesday that she will run for re-election next year. First elected in 2000, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[5229],"class_list":["post-32838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lori-edwards-will-seek-her-seventh-term-as-polk-county-supervisor-of-elections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32840,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32838\/revisions\/32840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}