SAMPLE GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA NOVEMBER 4, 2008 A B Precinct: XX C Style: XX TO VOTE, COMPLETELY FILL IN THE OVAL R NEXT TO YOUR CHOICE. CONGRESSIONAL NONPARTISAN Use only the marking device REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT provided or a black ballpoint pen. DISTRICT 1 (Vote for One) Shall Justice Charles T. Wells of the Supreme Court be retained in office? If you make a mistake, don't Jeff Miller REP hesitate to ask for a new ballot. If you erase or make other marks, James Jim Bryan DEM your vote may not count. YES To vote for a candidate whose STATE NO name is not printed on the ballot, fill in the oval, and write in the PUBLIC DEFENDER DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL candidate's name on the blank line 1st JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (Vote for One) provided for a write-in candidate. Shall Judge Robert T. Benton of the First District Court of Appeal be retained in James Owens REP office?
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Tony Henderson DEM YES
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT LEGISLATIVE NO (Vote for One) STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL DISTRICT 1 John McCain REP (Vote for One) Sarah Palin Shall Judge Marguerite H. Davis of the First District Court of Appeal be retained Greg Evers REP in office? Barack Obama DEM YES Joe Biden Write-in COUNTY NO
Gloria La Riva PSL SHERIFF Eugene Puryear DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL (Vote for One) Shall Judge Joseph Lewis Jr. of the First District Court of Appeal be retained in Chuck Baldwin CPF David Morgan REP Darrell Castle office? Larry Scapecchi DEM YES
Gene Amondson PRO DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF NO Leroy Pletten SCHOOLS (Vote for One) DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Bob Barr LBT Malcolm Thomas REP Wayne A. Root Shall Judge Ricky L. Polston of the First District Court of Appeal be retained in Claudia Brown-Curry DEM office?
Thomas Robert Stevens OBJ COUNTY COMMISSIONER YES Alden Link DISTRICT 5 (Vote for One) NO
James Harris SWP Kevin White REP Alyson Kennedy DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL Jim Barnett DEM Shall Judge Clay Roberts of the First Cynthia McKinney GRE District Court of Appeal be retained in Rosa Clemente office? YES
Alan Keyes AIP NO Brian Rohrbough
DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL Ralph Nader ECO Matt Gonzalez Shall Judge William A. Van Nortwick Jr. of the First District Court of Appeal be retained in office? Brian Moore SPF YES Stewart Alexander NO
Charles Jay BTP SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER John Wayne Smith DISTRICT 5 (Vote for One)
Tom Harrell
Write-in Bill Slayton ESCAMBIA SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT Your Polling Place: Precinct: XX GROUP 5 Name of Polling Place (Vote for One) Address of Polling Place Marvino J. Allen
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PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AMENDMENTS No. 1 No. 4 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE I, SECTION 2 ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 3 AND 4 ARTICLE XII, SECTION 28 Declaration of Rights Property Tax Exemption of Perpetually Proposing an amendment to the State Conserved Land; Classification and Constitution to delete provisions Assessment of Land Used for authorizing the Legislature to regulate or Conservation prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real Requires Legislature to provide a property by aliens ineligible for property tax exemption for real property citizenship. encumbered by perpetual conservation easements or other perpetual YES conservation protections, defined by general law. Requires Legislature to provide for classification and assessment NO of land used for conservation purposes, and not perpetually encumbered, solely No. 2 on the basis of character or use. Subjects CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT assessment benefit to conditions, ARTICLE I, NEW SECTION limitations, and reasonable definitions established by general law. Applies to Florida Marriage Protection property taxes beginning in 2010. Amendment
This amendment protects marriage as YES the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife and NO provides that no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial No. 6 equivalent thereof shall be valid or CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT recognized. ARTICLE VII, SECTION 4 ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION The direct financial impact this amendment will have on state and local government revenues and expenditures Assessment of Working Waterfront cannot be determined, but is expected to Property Based Upon Current Use be minor. Provides for assessment based upon use YES of land used predominantly for commercial fishing purposes; land used for vessel launches into waters that are NO navigable and accessible to the public; marinas and drystacks that are open to No. 3 the public; and water-dependent marine CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT manufacturing facilities, commercial ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 3 and 4 fishing facilities, and marine vessel ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION construction and repair facilities and their support activities, subject to conditions, Changes and Improvements Not limitations, and reasonable definitions Affecting the Assessed Value of specified by general law. Residential Real Property
Authorizes the Legislature, by general YES law, to prohibit consideration of changes or improvements to residential real property which increase resistance to NO wind damage and installation of renewable energy source devices as No. 8 factors in assessing the property's value CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT for ad valorem taxation purposes. ARTICLE VII, SECTION 9 Effective upon adoption, repeals the existing renewable energy source device Local Option Community College exemption no longer in effect. Funding
YES Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to require that the NO Legislature authorize counties to levy a local option sales tax to supplement community college funding; requiring voter approval to levy the tax; providing that approved taxes will sunset after 5 years and may be reauthorized by the voters. YES
NO
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