Okay, so you’re registered to vote… Now what?

• By Susan Isaacs+
• October 10, 2012
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Get prepared!  For some folks like myself, voting is not as easy and straight forward as many think.  Once you get into the voting booth there's all this lingo you've never seen "things" you've never heard of and you're sitting there thinking- WTH! all I knew about was the Presidential election!

Well that's where we come in.  Starting today you have 28 days until the November 6th elections, so start reading up on things that will be on the ballot and KNOW WHAT YOU'RE VOTING FOR!!!

Now don't get overwhelmed, it may look like a lot of information... Well it is a lot of information but that's why it's good to start now and know what your voting for rather than get in the booth and play the guessing game !

ORLEANS NOVEMBER 6 SAMPLE BALLOT

Presidential Electors (1 to be elected)

U. S. Representative 1st Congressional District (1 to be elected)

U. S. Representative 2nd Congressional District (1 to be elected)

Judge, Court of Appeal 4th Circuit, 1st District, Division B (1 to be elected)

Judge, Court of Appeal 4th Circuit, 1st District, Division H (1 to be elected)

Judge Criminal District Court, Section B (1 to be elected)

Councilmember District B (1 to be elected)

Councilmember District E (1 to be elected)

Judge 2nd City Court (1 to be elected)

Clerk 2nd City Court (1 to be elected)

Constable 2nd City Court (1 to be elected)

Member of School Board District 1 (1 to be elected)

Member of School Board District 2 (1 to be elected)

Member of School Board District 3 (1 to be elected)

Member of School Board District 4 (1 to be elected)

Member of School Board District 6 (1 to be elected)

Member of School Board District 7 (1 to be elected)

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 1 (Act 873) Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 2 (Act 874) Right of each Citizen to keep and bear arms

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 3 (Act 872) Prefiling DL/for retirement/public employee

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 4 (Act 875) Surv. Spouse/Deceased Veteran/Homestead Exemp.

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 5 (Act 868) Forfeiture Retirement Benefit Pub.Off./Conv.Felon

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 6 (Act 869) Gov.Auth. of New Iberia – prop.annexed by the City

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 7 (Act 870) Provides filling appts/Vac. on Bds./Comm.

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 8 (Act 871) State Bd. of Comm./Industry-Tax Exemp. contracts

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 9 (Act 876) Security District/Parcel Fee w/in District

Parish Wide: School District Local Option – Term Limits

Parish Wide: Crescent City Bridge 20 Yrs. – Toll Collection – Act 865

Parish Wide: CC (HRC) HRC Amendment – CC

Parish Wide: CC (N.O. Reg. Bus. Park) 20 Mills – CC – 20 Yrs.

Lake Vista Crime Prev. Dist. $220 Parcel Fee – CC – 4 Yrs.

Gentilly Terrace & Gardens Sec. Dist. Annual Fee – CC – 3 Yrs.

N. Kenilworth Imprv. & Security Dist. Annual Fee – CC – 8 Yrs.

Orleans Levee District 6.07 Mills – BOC – 30 Yrs.

SAMPLE BALLOT END ###

Click below for more information on the nine proposed (statewide) constitutional amendments: http://www.sos.la.gov/Portals/0/elections/pdf/NOV62012CAS-withseal.pdf

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 1 Do you support an amendment to prohibit monies in the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly from being used or appropriated for other purposes when adjustments are made to eliminate a state deficit?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 2 Do you support an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Louisiana to provide that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right and any restriction of that right requires the highest standard of review by a court?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 3 Do you support an amendment to require legislation effecting any change to laws concerning retirement systems for public employees that is to be pre-filed to be filed no later than forty-five days before the start of a regular legislative session and to require the completion of public notice requirements regarding legislation effecting such a change no later than sixty days before introduction of the bill?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 4 Do you support an amendment to exempt from ad valorem taxation, in addition to the homestead exemption, the next seventy-five thousand dollars of value of property owned and occupied by the spouse of a deceased veteran with a service-connected disability rating of one hundred percent who passed away prior to the enactment of the exemption?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 5 Do you support an amendment to provide for the forfeiture of public retirement benefits by any public servant who is convicted of a felony associated with and committed during his public service?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 6 Do you support an amendment to authorize the granting of ad valorem tax exemption contracts by the city of New Iberia for property annexed by the city after January 1, 2013?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 7 Do you support an amendment, relative to the membership of constitutional boards and commissions that have members who are selected from congressional districts, to retain the existing number of members and to provide for implementation of membership from reapportioned congressional districts by filling vacancies first from under-represented districts and then from the state at large?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 8 Do you support an amendment to authorize the granting of ad valorem tax exemption contracts by the Board of Commerce and Industry for businesses located in parishes which have chosen to participate in a program established for the granting of such contracts?

Constitutional Amendment: NO. 9 Do you support an amendment to provide that no law relative to the creation of a special district, the primary purpose of which includes aiding in crime prevention and security by providing for an increased presence of law enforcement personnel in the district or otherwise promoting and encouraging security in the district, shall be enacted unless three separate notices of the proposed law are published at least thirty days prior to introduction of the bill, which notice shall set forth the substance of the proposed law and whether the governing authority of the special district would be authorized to impose and collect a parcel fee within the district, whether the parcel fee will be imposed or may be increased without an election, and the maximum amount of such fee?

Research Citation: Independent Information Source: Office of the Louisiana Secretary of State