Primary elections set for Tuesday
Dallas County News
Primary
elections will be held around the state Tuesday to determine what
candidates will be on the ballot during next November's general
election.
In Dallas County, four races – two each on the Democratic and Republican tickets – will be decided.
Republican primaries will be held in both the run for Dallas County Sheriff and Dallas County Auditor.
Democratic
primaries will be held in the run for Dallas County Sheriff and for the
Iowa State House of Representatives in District 47.
In
primary elections, voters must be registered as either a Democrat or
Republican and must vote only for candidates within their own party.
Voters registered as independents must declare a party to be eligible
to vote Tuesday.
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Can lone race pull a turnout for BV primary?
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune
What if you threw a primary election and nobody came?
Buena
Vista County Commissioner of Elections Karen Strawn hopes that won't be
the case when polls open Tuesday, but she can't recall the last
campaign with less local excitement.
“There
is only one contest on the entire ballot, the one for Democrats in the
5th District for House of Representatives, and even in that race, I'm
not hearing a lot of discussion,” Strawn said.
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As
a resident of Storm Lake, all I can say is “how embarrassing!”
I'm posting this to humiliate myself. Did you get to the part yet where
the County Auditor says she wouldn't be surprised if the turnout were
as low as 3%? Well, I, for one, am voting. But I'm having a
hard time making up my mind for the one race we actually have a choice
in. Too many good candidates.
Oh, and there are a couple of typos in the article – our State Senator
is Steve Kettering (R-26), not Steve King, who is our shameful,
party-line-voting neo-con Congressman in the 5th District.
Kettering is running unopposed. Also, the article says absentee
ballots must be postmarked by June 3rd. This is incorrect.
The County Auditor's office says the deadline is Tuesday, June 8th, the
day of the primary election.
Three vie for Democratic party's bid for Kossuth County Auditor
The Algona Upper Des Moines
Three
women in different stages of their lives are seeking the Democratic
Party's bid for the position of Kossuth County auditor in the June 8
primary election.
Incumbent
Joann Bormann, a widow from rural Livermore, is seeking her second
four-year term as auditor. She is being challenged by Sharon
Lallier-Waller, a divorced single mom from Algona who has worked for
nine years as a clerk in the Kossuth County treasurer's office, and
Geralyn “Geri” Reising, a married mother of eight who seeks elected
office now that her children are mostly grown.
The
job they pursue is a daunting one. The auditor's office administrates
all elections and voter registration. It pays all county claims and the
county's payroll. It is involved in ag drainage governance. It
transfers real estate property to plat maps and plat books. It creates
the county budget and is responsible for financial reporting to the
state. The auditor also takes the minutes at all board of supervisor
meetings and is responsible for placing the county's public notices in
the local paper.
The auditor is not able to make policy changes, but rather is governed by the voluminous Iowa Code and must follow it precisely.
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