{"id":40867,"date":"2016-08-17T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40867"},"modified":"2016-08-17T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:26:42","slug":"sample-ballots-for-the-august-30-2016-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/08\/sample-ballots-for-the-august-30-2016-primary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Ballots for the August 30, 2016 Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15454\" title=\"Vote2014\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Vote2014-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" 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: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office will mail out approximately 269,000 generic sample ballots on Monday, August 15, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The generic sample ballot is designed so that no matter what contests the voter marks, the contests fall in the same order as the district specific ballot he or she will receive at early voting or at the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Elections will not mail sample ballots to inactive voters, vote-by-mail voters or overseas civilian and military voters.<\/p>\n<p>The Official\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.lee.vote\/history\/elhis16\/160830\/160830_OfficialSampleBallot.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/docs.lee.vote\/history\/elhis16\/160830\/160830_OfficialSampleBallot.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1471544057502000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTv2GVCGVCOOKmJq_cUh7rn6HwHw\">sample ballot<\/a>\u00a0is posted on our website in the Elections Tab under\u00a008\/30\/16\u00a0Primary Election.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI encourage voters to mark their sample ballot and take it with them when they go to vote.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sharon L. Harrington, Lee County Supervisor of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0We 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\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.lee.vote&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1471544057502000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEgEQMSKvQPYKbrLAwZ2j-siIg5Dw\">www.lee.vote<\/a>\u00a0or call LEE VOTE (533-8683).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office will mail out approximately 269,000 generic sample ballots on Monday, August 15, 2016. The generic sample ballot is designed so that no matter&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\/40867"}],"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=40867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}