{"id":15341,"date":"2012-10-30T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2012-10-30T00:36:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T06:36:40","slug":"want-to-skip-the-long-lines-at-early-voting-vote-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/10\/want-to-skip-the-long-lines-at-early-voting-vote-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Skip the Long Lines at <Br>Early Voting? Vote from Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/want-to-skip-the-long-lines-at-early-voting-vote-from-home\/absentee_ballot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15342\" title=\"absentee_ballot\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/absentee_ballot-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/absentee_ballot-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/absentee_ballot.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s an old saying that the early bird gets the worm, but getting the worm is taking longer than some early birds expect.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting is off and running in Southwest Florida and some voters have been surprised to find\u00a0long lines and lengthy waits at the polls hours long<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason may be the length of this year&#8217;s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Its only four pages long because includes several wordy proposed amendments to Florida&#8217;s constitution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You still have a chance to avoid any waiting by voting from home with mail-in ballot which is also known as an absentee ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Any registered voter can request a mail-in\/absentee ballot. You do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span> have to be out of town to request one.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ll have to act fast.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leeelections.com\/userfiles\/2012%20BBM_English081312.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lee county elections office<\/a>\u00a0and other local elections offices say you have until Wednesday, October 31st, to request a mail-in ballot.<\/p>\n<p>You can request your ballot in business hours when you call your elections office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leeelections.com\/userfiles\/2012%20BBM_English081312.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lee County<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; (239) LEE-VOTE (533-8683)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leeelections.com\/userfiles\/2012%20BBM_English081312.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Request a mail-in ballot from Lee County<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old saying that the early bird gets the worm, but getting the worm is taking longer than some early birds expect. Early voting is off and running in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}