{"id":347374,"date":"2026-07-21T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:22:30","slug":"elections-office-begins-mailing-mail-ballots-sanibel-captiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347374\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Office begins mailing mail ballots &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14, the Lee County Elections Office reported that it had begun mailing approximately 96,000 vote-by-mail ballots to county voters who had requested one for the Aug. 18 primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who wish to vote by mail still have time to submit a request.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to request one is Aug. 6 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Elections Office noted that all vote-by-mail requests made before 2025 have expired. Voters must submit a new request to receive a mail ballot for the 2026 elections.<\/p>\n<p>To request one or for more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.vote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.lee.vote\/<\/a> or call  239-533-8683.<\/p>\n<p>To reach LEE COUNTY ELECTIONS, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/2026\/07\/elections-office-begins-mailing-mail-ballots\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 14, the Lee County Elections Office reported that it had begun mailing approximately 96,000 vote-by-mail ballots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-347374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347374","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=347374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}