{"id":15792,"date":"2012-11-13T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2012-11-13T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:24:13","slug":"fire-board-race-goes-into-automatic-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/11\/fire-board-race-goes-into-automatic-recount\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Board Race Goes Into Automatic Recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/fire-board-race-goes-into-automatic-recount\/vote-recount\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15793\" title=\"vote-recount\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vote-recount.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vote-recount.jpg 360w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vote-recount-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vote-recount-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>And the recount began today at 5 p.m., according to Sharon Harrington, Lee County supervisor of elections, they begin an automatic machine recount in the race for Seat 3 on the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District,<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Larry Becker won the race with 31.43 percent of the vote to Ronald Krome&#8217;s 31.04 percent.<\/p>\n<p>By state law, a recount is done when the difference in tallied votes is less than one half of 1 percent. An automatic hand recount is done when the difference is under a quarter of a percent.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington said hopes to know the results by midnight. They will recount 15 precincts or approximately 13,000 ballots from the polling sites, she said. She wasn&#8217;t sure about the number of absentee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate with the lower percentage has the option to say no to the recount but she said Krome encouraged them to proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the recount began today at 5 p.m., according to Sharon Harrington, Lee County supervisor of elections, they begin an automatic machine recount in the race for Seat 3 on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792"}],"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=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}