{"id":50214,"date":"2024-09-27T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=50214"},"modified":"2024-09-27T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:28:12","slug":"request-your-vote-by-mail-ballot-for-the-november-5th-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/09\/27\/request-your-vote-by-mail-ballot-for-the-november-5th-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Request Your Vote-by-Mail Ballot for the November 5th\u00a0General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ballots are now available for eligible voters who wish to vote by mail in the General Election on November 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"a69baa\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/images-8.jpeg?resize=299%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50215 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a69baa; width:488px;height:auto\"\/><\/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. Last day to request a Vote-by-Mail ballot is Thursday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voted ballots must be returned to the Supervisor of Elections Office by 7 pm on November 5<sup>th<\/sup>. Voted ballots can be mailed or dropped off at Election Headquarters, 250 South Broadway Avenue in Bartow, or at the Election Operations Center, 70 Florida Citrus Boulevard in Winter Haven. Ballots may also be dropped off at one of the ten convenient Early Voting sites available October 21<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;thru November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 7 am \u2013 7 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters can request a mail ballot and view the Early Voting locations by visiting the Supervisor of Elections website at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polkelections.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PolkElections.gov<\/a>&nbsp;or by calling the Elections Office at (863) 534-5888.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballots are now available for eligible voters who wish to vote by mail in the General Election on November 5th. \u201cNo stamp is necessary to return the ballot as the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50215,"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":"14","_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":50215,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/images-8.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[9863],"class_list":["post-50214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-request-your-vote-by-mail-ballot-for-the-november-5th-general-election"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50214","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=50214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50216,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50214\/revisions\/50216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}