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OFFICIAL GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT BAY COUNTY, NOVEMBER 4, 2008

A PCT 1 B C TO VOTE, COMPLETELY FILL IN THE OVAL NEXT TO YOUR 11 CHOICE. CONGRESSIONAL NONPARTISAN • Use only the marking device provided or a black ink pen. REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME • If you make a mistake, don't DISTRICT 2 COURT hesitate to ask for a new ballot. If you (Vote for One) erase or make other marks, your vote Shall Justice Charles T. Wells of the may not count. Mark Mulligan REP Supreme Court be retained in office? • To vote for a candidate whose name is not printed on the ballot, fill in the oval, and write in the candidate's Allen Boyd DEM YES name on the blank line provided for 21 write-in candidate. Write-in NO PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT STATE Shall Judge Robert T. Benton of the (Vote for One) First District Court of Appeal be STATE ATTORNEY retained in office? 14th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT John McCain (Vote for One) YES REP Steve Meadows REP NO

Barack Obama Glenn Hess DEM Shall Judge Marguerite H. Davis of DEM the First District Court of Appeal be COUNTY retained in office?

Gloria La Riva CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT YES PSL (Vote for One) 40 NO

41 Bill Kinsaul REP Shall Judge Joseph Lewis Jr. of the Darrell Castle CPF First District Court of Appeal be 42 John Caylor DEM retained in office?

43 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS YES Leroy Pletten PRO (Vote for One) NO

Bob Barr Bill Husfelt REP Shall Judge Ricky L. Polston of the Wayne A. Root LBT First District Court of Appeal be James E. McCalister Sr. DEM retained in office?

Thomas Robert Stevens Steven T. George NPA YES Alden Link OBJ COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 1 NO (Vote for One) James Harris Shall Judge Clay Roberts of the First SWP District Court of Appeal be retained in 51 Mike Nelson REP office?

Cynthia McKinney Sharon Sheffield DEM YES GRE William E. Fisher Jr. NPA NO

Alan Keyes COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5 Shall Judge William A. Van Nortwick Brian Rohrbough AIP (Vote for One) Jr. of the First District Court of Appeal be retained in office?

Ralph Nader Mike Thomas REP YES ECO Diane C. Brown DEM NO

Brian Moore BAY SOIL AND WATER DISTRICT SPF GROUP 3 (Vote for One)

Charles Jay Thomas Davis John Wayne Smith BTP SAMPLEJared Williams

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NONPARTISAN PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AMENDMENTS BAY SOIL AND WATER DISTRICT GROUP 5 (Vote for One) NO. 3 NO. 6 CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL Tommy E. Hamm Jr. AMENDMENT AMENDMENT ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 3 ARTICLE VII, SECTION 4 Jerrad Hardin AND 4 ARTICLE XII, NEW ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL SECTION AMENDMENTS Assessment of Working Changes and Improvements Waterfront Property Based Not Affecting the Assessed Upon Current Use Value of Residential Real NO. 1 Property Provides for assessment based CONSTITUTIONAL upon use of land used AMENDMENT Authorizes the Legislature, by predominantly for commercial ARTICLE I, SECTION 2 general law, to prohibit fishing purposes; land used for consideration of changes or vessel launches into waters that are navigable and accessible to Declaration of Rights improvements to residential real property which increase the public; marinas and drystacks resistance to wind damage and that are open to the public; and Proposing an amendment to the water-dependent marine State Constitution to delete installation of renewable energy source devices as factors in manufacturing facilities, provisions authorizing the commercial fishing facilities, and Legislature to regulate or prohibit assessing the property's value for ad valorem taxation purposes. marine vessel construction and the ownership, inheritance, repair facilities and their support disposition, and possession of Effective upon adoption, repeals the existing renewable energy activities, subject to conditions, real property by aliens ineligible limitations, and reasonable for citizenship. source device exemption no longer in effect. definitions specified by general YES law.

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NO. 2 NO NO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 4 NO. 8 ARTICLE I, NEW SECTION CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AMENDMENT Florida Marriage Protection ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 3 ARTICLE VII, SECTION 9 Amendment AND 4 ARTICLE XII, SECTION 28 Local Option Community This amendment protects College Funding marriage as the legal union of only one man and one woman as Property Tax Exemption of Perpetually Conserved Land; Proposing an amendment to the husband and wife and provides State Constitution to require that that no other legal union that is Classification and Assessment of Land Used for Conservation the Legislature authorize counties treated as marriage or the to levy a local option sales tax to substantial equivalent thereof supplement community college shall be valid or recognized. Requires Legislature to provide a property tax exemption for real funding; requiring voter approval property encumbered by to levy the tax; providing that The direct financial impact this approved taxes will sunset after 5 amendment will have on state perpetual conservation easements or other perpetual years and may be reauthorized and local government revenues by the voters. and expenditures cannot be conservation protections, defined determined, but is expected to be by general law. Requires minor. Legislature to provide for classification and assessment of YES land used for conservation purposes, and not perpetually YES encumbered, solely on the basis NO of character or use. Subjects NO assessment benefit to conditions, END OF BALLOT limitations, and reasonable definitions established by general law. Applies to property taxes beginning in 2010.

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