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Election 2016

Early voting begins Monday

Voters looking to beat the Election Day lines can cast their ballot early starting Monday.Early voting for the Nov. 8 general election will kick off next week and span two weeks through Saturday, Nov. 5. Ten polling sites in Lee County will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m."It runs two weeks ...

By CHUCK?BALLAROnews@breezenewspapers.comThe decision Tuesday by The United States Northern District Court to extend the deadline for voter registration to Oct. 18 is not expected to have much of an impact on the Lee Elections Office, according to local officials.All Lee County Elections ...

Bill Clinton rallies Lee County Dems

Shane Broadstone, a senior at Oasis High School, will just miss the cutoff to be able to vote in the November election.The 17-year-old's birthday is just a month after it, but this hasn't inhibited his dedicated interest in politics. He was the first person in line to hear Bill Clinton speak at ...

The Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office mailed out 154,528 civilian-domestic vote-by-mail ballots on schedule Friday despite the bad weather.The office asks voters to keep in mind that several United States Postal Service processing plants and distribution centers in Florida closed at ...

Voter registration deadline approaching

Residents who want to cast a ballot in November have until Tuesday to register to vote.Currently, there are about 415,119 active registered voters in Lee County."We're getting lots and lots of applications," Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington.Those not registered to vote must submit a ...

Trump rallies Southwest Florida crowd

Running through a litany of the dead, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stressed the need for American - and worldwide - security at a campaign rally at Germain Arena Monday afternoon.To the cheers of the filled-to-capacity crowd as he opened with jabs at Democratic nominee Hillary ...