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THIS BALLOT CANNOT BE VOTED. IT IS A SAMPLE OF THE OFFICIAL GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT USED IN THE VOTING MACHINES ON ELECTION DAY. OFFICIAL GENERAL ELECTION SAMPLE BALLOT Alexandria Township • 7th Congressional District Mary H. Melfi Hunterdon County Clerk Hunterdon County, New Jersey • Tuesday, November 4, 2008

PRESIDENTIAL UNITED STATES HOUSE OF BOARD OF CHOSEN TOWNSHIP OFFICE TITLE SURROGATE ELECTORS FOR SENATE REPRESENTATIVES Vote for One FREEHOLDERS COMMITTEE Vote for One Pair Vote for One Vote for One Vote for One Vote for One JOHN McCAIN DICK LEONARD SUSAN J. ERIK HARRY REPUBLICAN SARAH PALIN ZIMMER LANCE HOFFMAN PETERSON FUERSTENBERGER

BARACK OBAMA FRANK LINDA NO NOMINATION MARTIN NO NOMINATION DEMOCRATIC JOE BIDEN LAUTENBERG STENDER MADE SIECKE MADE

CYNTHIA McKINNEY SARA J. THOMAS D. NOMINATION ROSA CLEMENTE LOBMAN ABRAMS BY PETITION Green Party Socialist Workers Party Prosperity Not War GLORIA La RIVA JEFFREY MICHAEL P. NOMINATION EUGENE PURYEAR BOSS HSING BY PETITION Socialism and Liberation Boss for Senate Hsing for Congress JEFFREY “JEFF” BOSS J. M. DEAN NOMINATION ANDREA MARIE PSORAS CARTER GRECO BY PETITION Vote Here God We Trust All-Day Breakfast Party BOB BARR JASON NOMINATION WAYNE A. ROOT SCHEURER BY PETITION Libertarian Party Libertarian Party BRIAN MOORE DARYL MIKELL NOMINATION STEWART ALEXANDER BROOKS BY PETITION Socialist Party USA Poor People’s Campaign RALPH NADER NOMINATION MATT GONZALEZ BY PETITION Independent CHUCK BALDWIN NOMINATION DARRELL CASTLE BY PETITION Constitution Party ROGER CALERO NOMINATION ALYSON KENNEDY BY PETITION Socialist Workers Party

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STATE PUBLIC QUESTIONS TO BE VOTED UPON COUNTY PUBLIC QUESTION TO BE VOTED UPON STATE PUBLIC QUESTION #1 STATE PUBLIC QUESTION #2 CONTINUATION OF HUNTERDON COUNTY OPEN SPACE, RECREATION, VOTERS TO APPROVE STATE AUTHORITY BONDS PROVIDES THAT METHOD OF SELECTION AND APPOINTMENT FARMLAND AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST FUND PAYABLE FROM STATE APPROPRIATIONS OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGES BE SET Shall the Hunterdon County Board of Chosen Freeholders continue the current “Open Do you approve the proposed amendment to the State Constitution which provides that, YES BY STATUTE RATHER THAN BY THE CONSTITUTION. YES Space, Recreation, Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund” for the purposes of YES after this amendment becomes part of the Constitution, a law enacted thereafter that Shall the amendment to Article VI, Section VI, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, protecting drinking water sources and water quality; preserving open space, natural areas, authorizes State debt created through the sale of bonds by any autonomous public corporate agreed to by the Legislature, providing that judges of inferior courts with jurisdiction farmland and historic sites; to acquire, develop, improve and maintain county and entity, established either as an instrumentality of the State or otherwise exercising public and NO extending to more than one municipality be appointed as provided in law rather than as NO municipal lands for recreation and conservation purposes; and preservation of historic NO essential governmental functions, such as an independent State authority, which debt or provided in the Constitution which requires nomination by the Governor and appointment structures, properties, facilities, sites, areas, or objects; or for the payment of debt service or indebtedness liability has a pledge of an annual appropriation as the ways and means to pay the interest with the advice and consent of the Senate, be approved? issued or incurred by the County for any of the purposes described above; with projects to be selected through of such debt or liability as it falls due and pay and discharge the principal of such debt, will a fair and open process and to be acquired from willing sellers only, to be funded by continuing the existing be subject to voter approval, unless the payment of the debt is made subject to INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT annual tax assessment not to exceed the amount of Three ($.03) Cents per one hundred ($100.00) dollars of appropriations of an independent non-State source of revenue paid by third persons for the This constitutional amendment would provide that the method of selection and appointment of certain total County equalized real property value commencing January 1, 2010, with all funds subject to an annual use of the object or work bonded for, or are from a source of State revenue otherwise municipal court judges would be set by statute, rather than be provided for in the Constitution. These judges independent audit? INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT required to be appropriated pursuant to another provision of the Constitution? may include judges of joint municipal courts and judges of central municipal courts with jurisdiction extending A “yes” vote will permit the County to continue the existing Hunterdon County Open Space, Recreation, INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT to the territorial boundaries of a county. This constitutional amendment does not preclude the possibility that Farmland, and Historic Preservation Trust Fund. Funds shall be used to: This amendment to the State Constitution will require voter approval of new laws that allow the State to borrow a statute would continue to provide for nomination by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, i) Protect drinking water sources; money by issuing bonds through any State agency or independent authority backed by a pledge of an annual but it does permit a statute to set forth another method of selection and appointment that may not involve the ii) Improve the water quality of rivers, lakes, and streams; appropriation to pay the principal and interest on the bonds. New laws to allow the issuance of these State Governor and the Senate. iii) Preserve open space and natural areas; authority bonds for State government purposes will be subject to voter approval. State courts have ruled that iv) Preserve farmland; the State constitutional requirement that the Legislature and Governor must seek voter approval for bonded debt v) Protect wildlife habitat; does not apply to such borrowing. That requirement is followed only for proposed State bonds that contain a vi) Provide park and recreation land; binding, non-repealable pledge to pay off the bonds directly with State taxes. Most State authority bonds can be vii) Preserve historic sites; issued without voter approval because the payment of the bonds is backed only by a promise of the Legislature viii) Acquire land for other conservation, recreation, and historic preservation purposes; and the Governor that they will enact appropriations in the future to meet the bond payments. The courts have ix) Develop and maintain county and municipal lands for recreation and conservation purposes; and said this is a legal means of avoiding submitting the issuance of debt for voter approval. Laws to permit such x) Pay debt service on indebtedness incurred by Hunterdon County for any of the above purposes. debt that are enacted after this amendment becomes part of the Constitution will have to authorize voter Projects for this funding would be selected through a fair and open process. Land will be purchased from willing TO RECORD YOUR VOTE referenda for approval of such debts. Exceptions to voter approval for authority bonds will be permitted if the sellers only on a voluntary basis. A “yes” vote will permit the County to continue to levy no more than 3 cents per $100 DO NOT PRESS THE ‘CAST VOTE’ BUTTON UNTIL YOU bonds are to be paid off from 1) a source of revenue dedicated by the State Constitution, which only the voters equalized real property value. There would be no increase in the current County Open Space tax rate per $100 of assessed HAVE MADE ALL DESIRED SELECTIONS can establish, or 2) an independent non-State government source of payments for use of projects built or value. As an example, at the rate of 3 cents, the owner of a single family residential property in Hunterdon County obtained with the borrowed money, such as highway tolls or user fees. assessed at $306,000 would continue to pay $92 per year, or $7.66 a month, to the Open Space, Recreation, Farmland CAST VOTE and Historic Preservation Trust Fund. Every year there will be an independent audit of how the funds were spent. BUTTON