{"id":629079,"date":"2017-06-21T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=629079"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:10:14","slug":"countywide-voting-implemented-in-gregg-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=629079","title":{"rendered":"Countywide Voting Implemented in Gregg County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/voting-computer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/voting-computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-629084\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Voting just got a little easier in Gregg County.  KETK reports that come Election Day, people can cast their votes at any polling location within the county &#8212; a service that until now was only available to early voters.  It&#8217;s a move that had earlier been made in Smith County. Gregg County Elections Administrator Kathryn Nealy and her team have been on a mission. to simplify voting.  Nealy says, &#8220;We&#8217;ve had so many elections so close it could throw it into a run off and those one or two votes could make all the difference.&#8221; Gregg County finally got the OK from the Texas secretary of state to implement countywide balloting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Voting just got a little easier in Gregg County. KETK reports that come Election Day, people can cast their votes at any polling location within the county &#8212; a service that until now was only available to early voters. It&#8217;s a move that had earlier been made in Smith County. Gregg County Elections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=629079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countywide Voting Implemented in Gregg County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":629084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 12:31:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629086,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629079\/revisions\/629086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/629084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}