Tuesday’s general election will focus not only on Obama and Romney, but also several local races.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Alliance residents will vote at the Burkholder Education Center (former National Guard Armory) at 7th and Black Hills. Hemingford and its area residents will vote at the St. Bridget Parish Center at 801 Niobrara Avenue. Western, eastern and northeastern rural Box Butte County residents will vote on the first floor of the courthouse at 6th and Box Butte in Alliance.
This reminder, if you checked our an absentee (or early voting) ballot, your ballot must be returned to the county clerk’s office by 7 p.m., Tuesday. Please DO NOT take your ballot to any of the polling places.
In Box Butte County, four people are vying for three positions on the Alliance School Board. They include incumbents Troy Schnell, Terry Curtiss, and Duane Dobson, as well as challenger, Deb Grothen-Wegehoft.
Three people are competing for two positions on the Alliance City Council, including, challenger Lori Rowley, and incumbents Wally Seiler and Fred Feldges.
Longtime Box Butte County Commissioner Cap Brixius has chosen not to seek re-election, and voters will chose between former commissioner Marv Toedtli (D) of Alliance, and Doug Hashman (R) of Berea.
Four people are running for three positions on the Hemingford Village Board, including, Jim Keegan, Deb Planansky, Kenneth Luce, and Marion Lee Cheek.
In the race for Hemingford School Board, in Ward A, Hemingford residents will choose between Trish Schumacher and Blaine Magnuson, in Ward B, Alan Roland is running unopposed, and in Ward C, J.D. Sutphen is also running unopposed.
Box Butte County voters will also help select:
President and Vice President of the United States
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan – Republican
Barrack Obama and Joe Biden – Democrat
Gary Johnson and James Gray – Libertarian
Randall Terry and Marjorie Smith — By petition
United States Senate
Deb Fischer – Republican
Bob Kerrey – Democrat
House of Representatives – Third District
Adrian Smith – Republican
Mark Sullivan – Democrat
Nebraska Legislature District 43 (Alliance and eastern Box Butte County)
Al Davis of Hyannis
John Ravenscroft of Nenzel
Nebraska Legislative District 47 (Hemingford and the remainder of rural Box Butte County)
Ken Schliz of Ogallala (running unopposed)
County and District Court Judges – a yes or no vote.
Shall Judge of the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court James Michael Fitzgerald be retained?
Shall District Court Judge Derek Weimer be retained?
Shall County Court Judge Russell Harford be retained?
Western Nebraska Community College Board of Governors – District 3
Rich Stickney of Alliance (running unopposed)
Western Nebraska Community College Board of Governors – At Large
Tom Perkins (running unopposed)
Four Nebraska Constitutional Amendments are also on the ballot, with voters casting a simple yes or no.
Amendment One — Authorize impeachment of civil officers for acts that occur in pursuit of the office.
Amendment Two — The right to hunt, fish, and to harvest wildlife as a preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.
Amendment Three — Changing Legislative term limits from two consecutive four-year terms to three consecutive four-year terms.
Amendment Four — Increase the salary of members of the Nebraska Legislature from $12,000 a year to $22,000 a year.
Continuous election coverage begins at 7 p.m., Tuesday on AM 1400, KCOW Radio.
Election results also will be available throughout the evening on Double Q Country and on the Panhandle Post web site.