{"id":51193,"date":"2024-10-20T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=51193"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:42:39","slug":"thursday-is-the-last-day-to-request-a-mail-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/10\/20\/thursday-is-the-last-day-to-request-a-mail-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday is the Last Day to Request a Mail Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Polk County voters have until Thursday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to submit a request for a ballot to be mailed for the November 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0General Election.\u00a0 Requests for mail ballots can be made by contacting the Elections Office at (863) 534-5888 or online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polkelections.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PolkElections.gov<\/a>.\u00a0<\/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=\"b4bac3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/images-8.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51194 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #b4bac3; width:564px;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mail ballots may be returned by mail or dropped off at the Supervisor of Elections Offices in Bartow and Winter Haven until 7 pm on Election Day. Ballots may also be dropped off at one of the ten convenient Early Voting sites during days and hours of operation.<\/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>\u00a0Polk County voters have until Thursday, October 24th\u00a0to submit a request for a ballot to be mailed for the November 5th\u00a0General Election.\u00a0 Requests for mail ballots can be made by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51194,"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":51194,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/images-8.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10119],"class_list":["post-51193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-thursday-is-the-last-day-to-request-a-mail-ballot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193","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=51193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51195,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193\/revisions\/51195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}