{"id":373834,"date":"2026-08-17T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373834\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:34:55","slug":"pinellas-county-primary-elections-2026-candidates-how-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373834\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas County Primary Elections 2026: Candidates, How To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to cast your ballot in the 2024 primary election, you\u2019ll need to bring a valid and current photo and signature ID to your polling station.<\/p>\n<p>Acceptable forms of ID in Florida include:<\/p>\n<p> Florida driver licenseFlorida ID card (issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles)U.S. passportDebit or credit cardMilitary IDStudent IDRetirement center IDNeighborhood association IDPublic assistance IDVeteran health ID (issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)Concealed weapon license (issued pursuant to F.S. 790.06)Employee ID card issued by any branch, department, agency or entity of the federal government, the state, a county, or a municipality. <\/p>\n<p>If your photo ID doesn&#8217;t contain your signature, an additional ID with your signature is required.<\/p>\n<p>Without proper identification, you may still vote with a provisional ballot, which will later be evaluated by a canvassing board for eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sure where to vote, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.votepinellas.com\/Election-Information\/Find-Your-Precinct-Polling-Place\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">look up your polling station on the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In order to cast your ballot in the 2024 primary election, you\u2019ll need to bring a valid and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-373834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373834","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=373834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}