{"id":17557,"date":"2012-10-18T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2012-10-18T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:19:44","slug":"events-planned-to-kick-off-early-voting-1027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17557","title":{"rendered":"Events Planned To Kick Off Early Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 27<sup>th<\/sup>, marks the first day of Early Voting. Residents will be able to cast ballots at several local venues.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Hillsborough County Coalition of Concerned Citizens will host their final Early Voting Rally on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6. p.m. The event will take place at Al Barnes Park, 2902 N. 32<sup>nd<\/sup> Street, (formerly known as 18<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue Park).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Ann Jenkins,<\/strong> Voter Registration Chairperson for the Hillsborough County Coalition of Concerned Citizens said, \u201cWe are having an Early Voting Rally and we will provide transportation to and from the Early Voting sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to carry as many voters to the polls to cast their vote as needed. Our goal is to see if our voter registration drives had a positive impact; not only for our organization, but for all the organizations who took the time to work hard on voter registration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A representative from the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office will be on hand to answer questions regarding voting. Additionally, there will be machines available for citizens to check their voting status.<\/p>\n<p>Those planning to attend the rally should have acceptable photo identification to vote. The identification forms include: driver\u2019s license; state issued identification card; debit or credit card with a photo; military identification; student identification; retirement center identification, neighborhood association identification, or public assistance identification.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the organization will transport voters to and from the following voting locations: C. Blythe Andrews, Jr., Public Library, 2607 E. Dr. King, Jr.; the Fred B. Karl County Center, 26<sup>th<\/sup> Floor, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd.; Robert L. Gilder Election Service Center, 2514 N. Falkenburg Rd.; and Temple Terrace Public Library, 202 Bullard Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>Early Voting will take place from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., from Saturday, October 27<sup>th<\/sup> through Saturday, November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Elected Officials To Kick Off Early Voting\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People throughout the country will cast ballots for the 2012 Presidential Election on November 6<sup>th<\/sup>. In Hillsborough County can participate in the Early Voting initiative, on Saturday, October 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, the Hillsborough County Black Elected Officials will join U<strong>. S. Congresswoman Kathy Castor<\/strong> to kick off Early Voting. They will kick off the First Day of Early Voting with a breakfast. The breakfast will take place at 8 a.m., at the Open Caf\u00e9, 3332 N. 34<sup>th<\/sup> Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Black elected officials who will gather for the \u201cDutch Treat\u201d (all persons pay for their own breakfast),\u201d are State Senator <strong>Arthenia Joyner, <\/strong>State Representative <strong>Betty Reed,<\/strong> Hillsborough County Commissioner <strong>Les Miller, Jr.,<\/strong> Plant City <strong>Mayor Mary Mathis, <\/strong>City Councilman <strong>Frank Reddick,<\/strong> and School Board member <strong>Doretha Edgecomb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the breakfast, the group will assemble at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library to cast their early votes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Saturday, October 27th, marks the first day of Early Voting. Residents will be able to cast ballots at several local venues. Members of the Hillsborough County Coalition of Concerned Citizens will host their final Early Voting Rally on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6. p.m. The event will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}