{"id":41001,"date":"2016-08-30T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41001"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:13:56","slug":"election-day-what-you-need-to-know-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/08\/election-day-what-you-need-to-know-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day: What You Need To Know Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29672 alignleft\" 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\" \/>Voters who enjoy the old-fashion way to vote, going to the polls on Election Day today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Election Day coverage:<\/strong> Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighacresgazette.com\">www.lehighacresgazette.com<\/a> \u00a0throughout the day for updates from the polls, then follow us throughout the evening with more updates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know your poll:<\/strong>\u00a0Polls in Lee counties are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you don&#8217;t know i you are registered or where to vote, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeelections.com\">www.leeelections.com<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0or call LEE-VOTE if you&#8217;re a Lee resident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to bring:<\/strong>\u00a0Voters must bring a picture ID with a signature. Accepted forms of ID are: Florida driver&#8217;s license; Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; U.S. passport; debit or credit card with photo; military ID; student ID; retirement center ID; neighborhood association ID; and public assistance ID. Voters without valid ID can still vote, but they must use a provisional ballot (your signature will be compared to the one on your voter registration card).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voting by mail.<\/strong>\u00a0You can still vote by mail, but the ballots have to be returned by 7 p.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your ballot?\u00a0Registered Republicans can vote for several races, including picking a candidate for U.S. Rep. Lee has\u00a0school board races and county commission races. The school board races are nonpartisan. One race to watch that includes voters in both counties is the Republican State Senate race between Matt Hudson and\u00a0Kathleen Passidomo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters who enjoy the old-fashion way to vote, going to the polls on Election Day today. Election Day coverage: Check www.lehighacresgazette.com \u00a0throughout the day for updates from the polls, then&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29672,"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\/41001"}],"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=41001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001\/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=41001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}