{"id":40836,"date":"2016-08-11T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40836"},"modified":"2016-08-11T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:36:40","slug":"party-change-statistics-for-the-august-30-2016-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/08\/party-change-statistics-for-the-august-30-2016-primary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Change Statistics for the August 30, 2016 Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29672\" title=\"Voter box\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Voter-box-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Voter-box-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Voter-box.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>During the period of\u00a0June 1, through August 4th\u00a0the Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office processed over 8,829 party changes.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are broken down like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,225 voters changed from one of 11 recognized parties in Florida to Democrat<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04,786 voters changed from one of 11 recognized parties in Florida to Republican<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01,624 voters changed from one of 22 recognized parties in Florida to \u2018No Party Affiliation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The remaining 194 were minor party changes<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office is dedicated to serving our public.\u00a0 We strive for success and excellence in shaping the future of voting in Lee County by empowering every eligible citizen with the tools and education necessary to exercise his or her right to vote.\u00a0 We endeavor to guarantee the integrity and accuracy of every election by administering fair and appropriate voting procedures in compliance with federal and state election laws.\u00a0 For more information about elections, candidates, voter registration, early voting, vote by mail requests, precinct locations, poll workers, and outreach events, please visit our website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.lee.vote<\/a>\u00a0or call LEE VOTE (533-8683).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the period of\u00a0June 1, through August 4th\u00a0the Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office processed over 8,829 party changes. The changes are broken down like this: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02,225 voters changed from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40836"}],"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=40836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}