Secretary of State releases official ballot for 2024 election
Presidential candidates, ballot measures, more to be decided Nov. 5
By Ralph Hardin
news@theeveningtimes.com
Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston releases the full list of statewide ballot measures and a complete list of every candidate running in each county in the state for the Nov. 5 election.
The full list of ballot measures can be viewed and/or downloaded at www.sos.arkansas.gov/ There are three constitutional amendments up for a vote.
The first ballot measure asks voters to decide if they are for or against lottery proceeds being used to fund scholarships and grants to Arkansas citizens enrolled in vocational- technical schools and technical institutes.
The second ballot measure is an amendment requiring local voter approval in a countywide special election for certain new casino licenses and repealing the authority to issue a casino license in Pope County.
The third ballot is a constitutional amendment to expand access to medical marijuana.
The expansion would allow nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants and pharmacists to prescribe medical marijuana along with doctors.
The medical condition qualifications in Arkansas’ current medical marijuana law would also be broadened to include whatever a healthcare practitioner feels is debilitating for a patient and could be treated with marijuana.
Medical marijuana cards would also expire after three years under the proposal, instead of the current one-year limit.
Voters statewide will be asked to decide on the three ballot initiatives. Additionally, voters statewide will select their choice for U.S. President an a number of other races.
In Crittenden County,voters will decide the following races:
U.S. President & Vice President
•Peter Sonski / Lauren Onak American Solidarity Party
•Kamala D. Harris / Tim Walz – Democratic Party
•Jill Stein & Rudolph Ware Green Party
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. / Nicole Shanahan – Independent • Chase Oliver / Mike ter Maat – Libertarian Party
• Michael Wood / John G.
Pietrowski – Prohibition Party
• Donald J. Trump / J.D.
Vance – Republican Party
U.S. Congress District 1
• Rodney Govens – Democratic Party
• Steve G. Parsons – Libertarian Party
• Congressman Rick Crawford – Republican Party
State Treasurer
• John Pagan – Democratic Party
• Michael Pakko – Libertarian Party
• Secretary of State John Thurston – Republican Party
State Representative District 35
• Jessie McGruder – Democratic Party
• Justice Robert Thorne, Jr. Republican Party
State Representative District 63
• Mayor Lincoln Barnett – Democratic Party
• Tammi Northcutt Bell – Republican Party
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Position 1
• Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood – Non Partisan Judicial
• Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Karen Baker Non Partisan Judicial
Ballot Draw
The Crittenden County Election Commission will conduct the Ballot Draw for the November 5 General Election today at noon, at the Election Commission office, in the County Annex Building adjacent to the Crittenden County Courthouse.
Candidates will draw for their position on the election ballot at that time. The public is invited to attend.
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