{"id":43400,"date":"2019-06-13T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43400"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:18:10","slug":"lehigh-community-council-discusses-lack-of-a-primary-election-for-lehighs-special-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/lehigh-community-council-discusses-lack-of-a-primary-election-for-lehighs-special-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Community Council discusses lack of a primary election for Lehigh\u2019s special districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/primary-election-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/primary-election-logo.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/primary-election-logo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Community Council discussed the election\nprocess with regards to special districts during its regular meeting on Monday,\nJune 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently Lehigh Acres&#8217; special district&#8217;s follow an\nelection process that differs slightly from other area non-partisan elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The current system requires candidates to first past\nthe post, even though most of the time there are more than two candidates, and\nsome of the candidates win with less than 50 percent of voters. Other\nnon-partisan elections have a primary and then if one of the candidates does\nnot pass the 50 percent mark, they have a run off in the general\nelection,&#8221; Council Vice-president Tyler Woodby said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lehigh Community Council President Chuck Edwards suggested reaching out to the legislative delegation in an attempt to work towards changing special district voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The process needs to be fairer. I motion that the\ncouncil create a resolution requesting to change the Enabling Act,&#8221;\nEdwards said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other council members agreed but stressed the necessity of putting the resolution in front of the right legislators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lehigh Acres Community Council discussed the election process with regards to special districts during its regular meeting on Monday, June 3. Currently Lehigh Acres&#8217; special district&#8217;s follow an election&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400"}],"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=43400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}