{"id":48162,"date":"2024-07-26T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=48162"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:00:09","slug":"thousands-of-ballots-are-being-mailed-to-polk-county-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/07\/26\/thousands-of-ballots-are-being-mailed-to-polk-county-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Ballots are being Mailed to Polk County Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards explained that over 70,000 Polk County voters have been receiving their Vote-by-Mail ballots in the mail.&nbsp; Ballot certificate envelopes must be signed by the voter and returned by 7 pm on August 20th in order to count.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"979490\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5f380706e89ebf001f045013.webp?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48163 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #979490; width:419px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5f380706e89ebf001f045013.webp?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5f380706e89ebf001f045013.webp?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5f380706e89ebf001f045013.webp?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5f380706e89ebf001f045013.webp?w=1136&amp;ssl=1 1136w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo stamp is necessary to return the ballot as the return postage is pre-paid,\u201d said Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ballots can be mailed or dropped off at Election Headquarters, 250 South Broadway Avenue in Bartow, or dropped off at the Election Operations Center, 70 Florida Citrus Boulevard in Winter Haven.&nbsp; Ballots may also be dropped off at one of the ten convenient Early Voting sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polkelections.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PolkElections.gov<\/a>&nbsp;or call the Elections Office at (863) 534-5888.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards explained that over 70,000 Polk County voters have been receiving their Vote-by-Mail ballots in the mail.&nbsp; Ballot certificate envelopes must be signed by the voter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48163,"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":"12","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":48163,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/5f380706e89ebf001f045013.webp","type":"image\/webp"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[9234],"class_list":["post-48162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-thousands-of-ballots-are-being-mailed-to-polk-county-voters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48162","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48164,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48162\/revisions\/48164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}