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Published October 09, 2008 03:24 pm - CARTHAGE, Mo. — Sample ballots containing the issues to be decided in the Nov. 4 election are being distributed in Jasper County to allow voters to study the measures before they go to the polls, Bonnie Earl, county clerk, said Thursday. County clerk urges voters to study ballot measures w/ link to Missouri initiative ballot language By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com CARTHAGE, Mo. — Sample ballots containing the issues to be decided in the Nov. 4 election are being distributed in Jasper County to allow voters to study the measures before they go to the polls, Bonnie Earl, county clerk, said Thursday. Earl is getting the information out in an attempt to head off what could be a “perfect storm” for voting delays in the general election. The ballot is long, some of the questions are complicated and a big turnout is expected, she told members of the Jasper County Commission in their general session. “We’re seeing absentee voters in record numbers,” Earl said. “We know it’s going to be a big turnout.” she said. As of midday Thursday — with more than three weeks to go — 2,076 absentee ballots had been cast. That compares with just over 1,700 absentee ballots counted three days before the Nov. 7, 2006, election, when 45.6 percent of the county’s voters turned out. “With the people coming in to the office to vote absentee, it can take them as much as 10 minutes, with all the amendments and propositions to read,” Earl said. “So, voters need to be familiar with them before they go in, or the lines are going to move really slow.” She said copies of the sample ballots are available at the county courthouse in Carthage and the courts building in Joplin, at the Joplin and Carthage public libraries, and at local banks, and will they be placed in other locations. “And if anyone wants some copies to pass out at church or a club meeting, we have them here at the courthouse,” she said. Statewide questions on the Missouri ballot would: Remove the loss limit for gambling, restrict the number of casinos in the state and raise revenue for education. Create a council to ensure the availability of home-care services for elderly and disabled residents. Require investor-owned utilities to get part of their power from renewable sources, such as wind and solar power. Make English the official language at government meetings. 
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