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Everything You Need to Know About City Council Election Polls

By Chelsea Reinhard, May 7, 2014
 

Voters in three San Angelo City Council districts will go to the polls Saturday, May 10, to elect representatives to the seven-member body.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. at the following locations:

  • Precincts 114, 137, 144 – Station 618 Senior Center, 618 S. Chadbourne St.
  • Precincts 108, 306, 348 – Harriett Baptist Church, 7626 U.S. Highway 67 North in Harriett.
  • Precincts 112, 213 – St. Ambrose Church, 8602 Loop 570 in Wall.
  • Precinct 146 – Baptist Memorial Hospital’s chapel, 902 N. Main St.
  • Precincts 228, 230, 423 – Southgate Church of Christ, 528 Country Club Road.
  • Precinct 241 – Texas Department of Transportation’s Building E, 4502 Knickerbocker Road.
  • Precincts 305, 401, 436 – MHMR Services, 1501 W. Beauregard Ave.
  • Precincts 402, 420 – St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 2781 W. Avenue N.

Election day polling locations are also available on the City’s website at cosatx.us/elections, as is a map of the City Council districts.

Voters will elect Council members in Single Member Districts 1, 3 and 5 to serve full, two-year terms. Candidates for each office in the order they appear on the ballot are:

  • SMD 1 – Rodney Fleming, Bill Richardson, Trinidad Aguirre Jr.
  • SMD 3 – Eugenio Ismael Garcia, Johnny Silvas, Richard C. Bastardo Sr.
  • SMD 5 – Philip Skinner, Elizabeth Grindstaff.

Photo identification is now required to vote in Texas. Any of these seven forms is acceptable:

  • Texas driver’s license.
  • Texas Election Identification Certificate (issued by the Department of Public Safety).
  • Texas personal identification card (issued by DPS).
  • Texas concealed handgun license (issued by DPS).
  • U.S. military identification card containing the person’s photo.
  • U.S. citizenship certificate containing the person’s photo.
  • U.S. passport.

Voters without an acceptable form of ID will be offered a provisional ballot and informed of their right to show an ID to the voter registrar no later than six days after the election. Voters who cast a provisional ballot because of a lack of photo ID will have until Friday, May 16, to appear at the Tom Green County Elections Office on the second floor of the Edd B. Keyes Building, 113 W. Beauregard Ave., and show an acceptable ID.

 

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Bill Richardson, Wed, 05/07/2014 - 19:47
"Why Should I Vote in the Elections? With all this talk of voting you might ask why you should bother to vote at all? Does your vote actually mean anything? Many call voting a "sacred right," and it is one of the most important parts of our political system, a part that goes back to our earliest days as a nation. When he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklin is said to have told a local citizen that the founders had given the nation a Republic, if we could keep it. By that, Franklin meant that as Americans it is our duty to keep up on what is going on politically, that we should arrive at an informed, logical position about what political ideas we support, and finally that we should be sure and vote our conscience on Election Day. Many today complain about politicians not listening to the public. Of course, if we do not bother to vote our voice will not be heard by our elected officials in the first place. Our elected representatives are guided by what we say particularly when we vote. And if we don't vote we are telling our politicians that we don't care what they do and that is a dangerous thing to tell them. If you want change, your first duty is to vote your conscience." source:http://www.truethevote.org/resources/faq/question/why-vote
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It was announced the other day that some 700 voters had cast their vote during the early voting period for city council districts 1, 3, and 5. Just as an average, that's barely 230 people in each of the 3 districts who cast a vote during that early period. That's 230+- out of some 12 to 15,000 people in each district! That's sad - there's lots of complaints and plenty of folks that claim to know how to do it better - - have you voted yet? Are you planning on voting and keeping your right to complain? Let's hope Saturday is jam-packed at those polling places........
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"Democratic self-government does not work, according to Plato, because ordinary people have not learned how to run the ship of state. They are not familiar enough with such things as economics, military strategy, conditions in other countries, or the confusing intricacies of law and ethics. They are also not inclined to acquire such knowledge. The effort and self-discipline required for serious study is not something most people enjoy. In their ignorance they tend to vote for politicians who beguile them with appearances and nebulous talk, and they inevitably find themselves at the mercy of administrations and conditions over which they have no control because they do not understand what is happening around them. They are guided by unreliable emotions more than by careful analysis, and they are lured into adventurous wars and victimized by costly defeats that could have been entirely avoided." - Frostburg State University, "Plato: the Failure of Democracy"
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