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Absentee ballots on the way to voters
Absentee ballots have been sent to a
record 114,940 registered Clark County voters, reports
Tim Likness, county elections supervisor.
Because of the huge number of ballots sent, it may take until late this week for
them to reach all voters.
If voters don’t get absentees in the
mail by Thursday or Friday, they should call the elections department,
397-2345.
Because it is a new system, voters may
be in for some confusion or anxious moments as they sort out the cards and
select the one they want to use.
Only one ballot may be used.
Democratic ballots are red, Republican ballots are green, Libertarian ballots
are blue, and there is a white nonpartisan ballot, which may be used if voters
do not want to vote in the official party primary election.
All four ballots are identical, except
for color, each containing the same numbers, 1 through 228.
The trick, to avoid getting a ballot
tossed out, is to use the correct ballot and to vote only for candidates of that
color of ballot. Accidentally punching a Republican candidate’s chad of a
Democratic ballot will nullify the entire ballot.
It is all right, however, to vote for
nonpartisan candidates and on any of the party ballots.
Both the Secretary of State’s office
and the Clark County Auditor’s office have been deluged by voters just now
discovering how the system was changed by the last state legislature after the
Supreme Court ruled Washington’s 70-year-old open primary illegal.
Primary election day is Tuesday, Sept.
14, and all absentee ballots must be postmarked at least by that date.
Some home businesses exempt from new
law; others must apply for permits Sept. 1
Except for home businesses that
specifically are exempt, all home businesses in Clark County outside city limits
must be licensed under a new ordinance adopted earlier this year.
Applications for the new permits will
be available beginning Wednesday, Sept. 1, at the Customer Service Division of
the Clark County Community Development Department, in the Public Service Center,
1300 Franklin Street.
Exempted home businesses include those
that have no more than two non-resident employees, no outside storage and no
customers who come to the home business.
For further information on the new
ordinance, go to
www.clark.wa.gov.,
or call 397-2375, extension
4489.
Series on mystery of menopause
begins Wednesday
Southwest Washington Medical Center,
beginning Wednesday, Sept. 1, is presenting a free, four-part series of programs
exploring the mystery of menopause. The once-a-month 6-to-8 p.m. sessions will
be in the Health Education Center at the medical center.
For further information and to
register, call 514-2190.
Wallace and Rhine debate issues
Tuesday
State Rep.
Deb Wallace (D-17) and her Republican
challenger, Roy Rhine, a Washington state
patrolman, will debate jobs and economic issues of their campaigns at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 31, in the Clark Public Utilities building in Orchards at 8600 NE
117th Avenue.
The moderator will be
Lisa Pletcher, Clark College Workforce
Development officer. Questions will be taken from the audience.
Two additional debates are scheduled:
Sept. 15, education and health care, and Oct. 7, transportation and public
safety.
Fundraiser for Craig Pridemore
today at Street of Dreams
Supporters of
Craig Pridemore’s Democratic candidacy
for the 49th District state senate are holding a fundraiser from 6 to 9 p.m.
today at the NW Natural, Portland Home Builders Association Street of Dreams.
Sponsors of the event are
David and
Anita Lugliani, James Howsley, and
Kristine Phillips. For further
information and directions, call 608-9663.
People
Wade
Hendrix has been appointed engineering manufacturing manager at Applied
Motion Systems, a Vancouver-based manufacturer of motion control systems,
according to the president and founder of the company,
H. Kenneth Brown Jr.
News briefs
The Vancouver City Council does not meet
today. g
Clark County commissioners, meeting in regular session at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug.
31, are expected to adopt an ordinance creating the county’s share of a Clark
County-City of Vancouver Tourism Promotion Area, which will include Vancouver
and rural Clark County. The promotion area will be financed by a $2 per night
hotel-motel room charge. The money will be used to promote conventions and
tourism in the area. The creation of the area was supported by the local
hotel-motel industry.
(Click on the headlines below for the
rest of the story)
Ridgefield voters to take a shot at a $1 million bond issue that
would help buy nearly 50o acres for a new school near Ridgefield
High School--Columbian, Amy McFall Prince
Columbia Credit Union board committed to credit union
status--Vancouver Business Journal, Cami Joner
Planning drives Legacy project--Vancouver Business Journal,
Cami Joner
Income stagnant and poverty up in Washington State--Seattle
Times, AP, Rebecca Cook
Republicans reach for mass appeal as convention opens--USA TODAY
Bush, Kerry locked in dead heat--Washington Post, Richard
Morin and Christopher Muste
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