Is it possible for you to post a sample election ballot here for us. As has been discussed already here there are always races or issues that no one has any idea about before they get to the booth. If you could do this it would give people time to research these races and not have to vote blindly, or leave them blank. It sure would be helpful.

Amen Capt. especially any information concerning judges to be retained. Very few people seem to know which way to go on those and others. The EN did publish a questionaire for the candidates to answer. A re-run of that article now that we are close to the election day would be helpful.

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Originally posted by Captain Picard:
Is it possible for you to post a sample election ballot here for us. As has been discussed already here there are always races or issues that no one has any idea about before they get to the booth. If you could do this it would give people time to research these races and not have to vote blindly, or leave them blank. It sure would be helpful.

Make it so!

Great idea! However, I'd like to see them take it one step further and print it in the paper, as well. Seems like either they or the CJ used to do this, but I haven't seen it in a while. It would be a great way for people to familiarize themselves with the ballot and whom they can vote for prior to arriving at the polls.

Readers,

I'll check on the possibility of this. Normally, the tough part is when you have a many different ballots because of different council districts and so on. This election, we don't have a lot of that with County Council being At-Large no city races, so it might be possible.

As for state judge retention, I'll look on the wires to see if there's anything to use. Honestly, I doubt if we'll do anything locally, just because of the priority being placed on local races.

As for the candidate Q&As, they're nearly done being published and all are posted on our Web site. The quickest way to find them is by clicking on the "Elections 2008" link.
These posted are verbatim answers submitted from candidates to mailed-out questions from the newspaper.

Keep in mind, we also will publish many staff-produced election previews before Nov. 4. Look for those this weekend and all next week.

Best, Shea.

Any progress here???? I saw that the Courier Journal had a sample ballot with lots of info this morning. It would stand to reason you should be able to but time is running out.

Capt.,

Are you talking about the paid legal advertisement in the C-J today ... in the Indiana section?

No, we won't be running anything that stretches over three pages, but we have already published all the polling places in a legals ad similar to the C-J.

Here's what we tentatively have planned for a page in Saturday's paper:

• A list of all the candidates Clark County residents can vote for.
• A list of the polling places (soapbox time: Man I wish they'd go to voting centers — it would simplify the process so much).

It's not feasible to run an actual ballot. There are 14 different ballots in the county based on where a person lives. We'll stick with a listing.

Thanks for reading, Shea.

Thanx Shea, the more info you can find (Good or Bad) on the candidates, the better.

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Originally posted by jaxjunque:
Thanx Shea, the more info you can find (Good or Bad) on the candidates, the better.

You're welcome.

I'll remind readers they can click on our Election 2008 link from the home page. There they'll find stories produced by our reporters as well as verbatim Q&As with candidates who chose to respond.

Get out and vote!

Shea.

I guess I'm just naive. All I know is that every election I get to the voting booth and there are people and races that I not only have no idea about but haven't even heard of. It's pretty hard to make an informed vote on those things. I've scoured the internet and can't find a sample ballot for Clark County but I have seen one for Floyd County. I guess I'll just go with the most scientific method available....eeny meeny miney mo.

Hopefully this helps. It's a list culled from the 14 ballots. This is every race in the county. All you really have to do is determine which statehouse district you live in.

http://www.newsandtribune.com/local/local_story_304195017.html

Paper sample ballots are available at the Voter Registration office, I believe, but they don’t have them online I’m told.