{"id":29939,"date":"2014-03-24T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=29939"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:53:10","slug":"deadline-to-register-to-vote-in-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/03\/deadline-to-register-to-vote-in-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline To Register To<br> Vote in Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-15454\" title=\"Vote2014\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Vote2014-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Vote2014-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Vote2014.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Monday, March 24th, is the last day you can make changes if you want to be eligible to vote in the upcoming congressional special election.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is a closed primary state, which means that you must be registered with a party to vote for that party&#8217;s candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The April 22, 2014, special primary election for United States House District 19 will be a closed primary, which means only registered Republicans will be eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The books will close Monday, March 24th, at midnight. You must be registered to vote or change your party affiliation prior to the deadline to be eligible to vote in the April 22 special primary.<\/p>\n<p>New residents can register to vote and registered voters can change their party at all four Lee County Elections Offices:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Office<\/strong><br \/>\n2480 Thompson St.<br \/>\nFort Myers<br \/>\n239-LEE-VOTE (533-8683)<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Branch Office<\/strong><br \/>\n13180 S Cleveland Ave.<br \/>\nFort Myers<br \/>\n239-533-6918<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonita Branch Office<\/strong><br \/>\n25987 S Tamiami Tr. #105<br \/>\nBonita Springs<br \/>\n239-949-1581<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cape Coral Branch Office<\/strong><br \/>\n1031 SE 9th Place<br \/>\nCape Coral<br \/>\n239-533-7031<\/p>\n<p>All voter registration applications must be postmarked on or before Monday, March 24, 2014, and can be mailed to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lee County Supervisor of Elections<\/strong><br \/>\nP.O. Box 2545<br \/>\nFort Myers, FL 33902<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 24th, is the last day you can make changes if you want to be eligible to vote in the upcoming congressional special election. Florida is a closed primary&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15454,"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\/29939"}],"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=29939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}