{"id":42103,"date":"2024-02-15T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42103"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:14:52","slug":"supervisors-of-elections-accepting-scholarship-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/supervisors-of-elections-accepting-scholarship-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervisors of Elections Accepting Scholarship Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards announced today that Florida residents still have time to apply for one of three $1,200 scholarships to be awarded by the Florida Supervisors of Elections to Florida college students in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Ms. Edwards reminds applicants that they must be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–          Registered to vote in the State of Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–          Enrolled as a full-time student in a senior college or university in Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–          Majoring in Political Science, Public or Business Administration, Journalism or Mass Communications<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicants must also possess at least a \u201cC\u201d average for the previous year, demonstrate financial need and be available for an interview in the county where they are registered to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInterested students should contact the Supervisor of Elections in their county of residence to request an application packet,\u201d said Ms. Edwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County residents may contact Lori Edwards by phone at (863) 534-5888, or by email at info@polkelections.com<\/a>.  An application is also available at PolkElections.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deadline to return the scholarship application, which includes two letters of recommendation, is March 8, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards announced today that Florida residents still have time to apply for one of three $1,200 scholarships to be awarded by the Florida Supervisors… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[6],"tags":[7584],"class_list":["post-42103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-supervisors-of-elections-accepting-scholarship-applications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103","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=42103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42105,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42103\/revisions\/42105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}