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August 24 Primary Means Independents Choose Party Ballot

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Sedona AZ (July 15, 2010) – Candidates for election have filed their petitions, which means the election season is off and running.  The Primary election is August 24, 2010.  In the primary, voters will decide the nominees who will appear on the ballots in November’s election.

People are still asking questions about the Open Primary law enacted by the voters in 1998.  The law allows people who are registered as an Independent to request a Democrat, Republican or Green Party ballot, including early voting ballots.

If you are registered as a voter for one of the four recognized political parties – Democrat, Green, Libertarian or Republican – you will get the primary ballot for races featuring that party’s candidates for office. If you are registered as an Independent, have no political preference or another party, you may request any one of the recognized ballots. The only exception is that the Libertarian Party ballot is for that party only.

A 2007 federal court decision ruled that only registered members of the Libertarian Party may vote in that party’s primary.

young voters men women teens kids voteFor the Independents and everyone who has not selected a major political party, you have to let the Recorder’s Office know what ballot you wish to vote in the primary, if you are voting early.  If you vote at the polls on August 24th, you simply tell the poll worker what ballot you want.

If you have an early ballot request already on file, your ballot will be mailed out on July 29. The ballots will be mailed to registered voters based on party registration or preference if indicated by the Independent or Green Party voters.  The deadline to request an early ballot by mail is August 13.

For more information visit the Arizona Secretary of State main website at www.azsos.gov.

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