{"id":310933,"date":"2026-06-17T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:21:09","slug":"st-petersburg-launches-voting-campaign-ahead-of-historic-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310933\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg launches voting campaign ahead of historic ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SeanKinaneWMNF2020Nov3ElectionDayPinellasFloridaDSC_0061-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-261774 size-261774 wp-post-image\" alt=\"by Se\u00e1n Kinane WMNF 2020 Nov 3 Election Day Gulfport (Pinellas County) Florida. Florida's most densely populated county. A swing county along the I-4 corridor in the country's largest swing state. Webb Meyer Twitty Biden Edmond 2020 Gulfport\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tListen:<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in St. Petersburg\u2019s history, voters will choose the U.S. Senator, Florida Governor, St. Petersburg Mayor, and City Council members on the same ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a revived campaign from the city to get people to vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The City of St. Petersburg first launched the St. Pete Votes campaign two years ago to encourage voter registration and participation.<\/p>\n<p>Through the campaign, the city partners with neighborhood associations, local organizations, and community leaders to share voting information at recreation centers, libraries, and community events.<\/p>\n<p>Current St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch recorded a video kicking off the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welch is running against former governor Charlie Crist for the mayoral spot this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also running against former Shore Acres Neighborhood Civic Association President Kevin Batdorf, former St. Petersburg Fire Chief Jim Large, and nonprofit leader Maria Scruggs.<\/p>\n<p>The Primary election is August 18th, and General Election November 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen: For the first time in St. Petersburg\u2019s history, voters will choose the U.S. Senator, Florida Governor, St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2811,202,204,203,199,201,200,4220],"class_list":["post-310933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-election","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}