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 ...

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 ...

Update:Due to a conflict with another campaign-related fund raiser, the date of the "Are You Smarter than a Politician?" election forum organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral has been changed. The event will be held Wednesday, Sept. 28. The time and location of the forum is ...

He may have won the Republican primary for the U.S. Rep. District 19 seat by a wide margin, but Francis Rooney isn't taking anything for granted as he prepares for the general election in November.Rooney vows to continue to spread his message while bringing those who did not vote for him on not ...

The atmosphere at Commissioner Larry Kiker's watch party was tense as the first numbers of the evening rolled in.A gasp of dismay swept through the room at the Cypress Lakes Country Club as the TV broadcast that the Lee County Commissioner was tied with District 3 challenger Dick Anderson.The ...

With five candidates in the non-partisan primary for Supervisor of Elections, the top two vote-getters in Tuesday's balloting advance to general election runoff in November.Those two candidates are incumbent Sharon Harrington and challenger Tommy Doyle. The heavily criticized Harrington ...

In a race that was essentially over before the Election Day Republican primary ballots were counted, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott won reelection in a landslide vote over challenger Stephanie Eller.The substantial margin of victory for Scott came in at 85.15 percent of the vote to 14.85 percent ...

Only two of the five candidates who battled it out in the primary election for the new Lee County School Board District 7 seat are moving forward to the November election.Cathleen Morgan earned the majority of the ballots cast with 31,529 votes or 32.68 percent, followed by Chris Quackenbush ...

While four candidates started out the primary election vying for the new Lee County School Board District 6 seat, only two are proceeding to the November election.Jane Kuckel earned the majority of the ballots cast with 41,486 votes or 42.83 percent, followed by Don Armstrong with 25,619 votes ...

Francis Rooney may never have run for office before, but GOP voters casting ballots in the District 19 Congressional primary seemed to embrace his message enough to trust him with holding the party flag in the Nov. 8 general election.Rooney was a big winner Tuesday, garnering more than half the ...