2016 General Election Washington County, Arkansas November 8, 2016 INSTRUCTIONS to VOTER: 1
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11 Spg 20 Typ:01 Seq:0116 Spl:01 Official Ballot 2016 General Election Washington County, Arkansas November 8, 2016 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER: 1. Vote for a candidate by darkening the oval ( ) beside the candidate's name. Vote on amendments, acts, and measures by placing an appropriate mark ( ) below the amendment (act or measure) either FOR or AGAINST. 2. Use a black ink pen to darken the oval completely ( ). If you darken more than one oval on a race, amendment, act, or measure, your vote for that race, amendment, act, or measure will not count. 3. If you make a mistake on your ballot, do not attempt to cross out any mark made in error. Return the ballot to an election 21 official to receive a replacement ballot. You may replace up to two ballots in an election. FEDERAL COUNTY STATE County Judge ISSUE NO. 1 U.S. President and Vote for one CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT U.S. Vice President REFERRED TO THE PEOPLE BY Vote for one Alderman Mark Kinion Democratic Party THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Popular Name Joseph K. Wood PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO Darrell L. Castle Republican Party THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION U.S. President County Assessor CONCERNING THE TERMS, Scott N. Bradley Vote for one U.S. Vice President ELECTION, AND ELIGIBILITY OF Constitution Party Assessor Russell Hill ELECTED OFFICIALS Republican Party Ballot Title Carol Waddle PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO Donald J. Trump Democratic Party THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION U.S. President CONCERNING ELECTED Circuit Clerk OFFICIALS; PROVIDING FOR Michael R. Pence Vote for one U.S. Vice President TERMS OF OFFICE FOR CERTAIN Republican Party 40 Circuit Clerk Kyle Sylvester COUNTY OFFICIALS FOR FOUR (4) Republican Party YEARS; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN Constable District 01 COUNTY OFFICERS SHALL NOT BE Hillary Clinton Vote for one APPOINTED OR ELECTED TO A U.S. President CIVIL OFFICE DURING THEIR 42 Constable John Duggar Tim Kaine Republican Party ELECTED TERM; ALLOWING A U.S. Vice President CANDIDATE FOR AN OFFICE TO BE Democratic Party 43 Matt Miller CERTIFIED AS ELECTED WITHOUT Democratic Party APPEARING ON THE BALLOT WHEN HE OR SHE IS THE ONLY 44 CITY OF SPRINGDALE Jill Stein CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE AT U.S. President Mayor THE ELECTION; AND DEFINING THE Ajamu Baraka Vote for one TERM "INFAMOUS CRIME" FOR THE U.S. Vice President PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE Green Party Mayor Doug Sprouse ELIGIBILITY OF ELECTED OFFICIALS TO HOLD OFFICE. Clerk/Treasurer Lynn S. Kahn Vote for one U.S. President Kathleen Monahan City Clerk/Treas. Denise Pearce FOR ISSUE NO. 1 U.S. Vice President Independent Alderman Ward 1 Position 2 Vote for one AGAINST ISSUE NO. 1 Colby Fulfer Gary Johnson U.S. President ISSUE NO. 2 Bill Weld Eric Ford CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT U.S. Vice President Libertarian Party REFERRED TO THE PEOPLE BY Paul Jackson Hughes II THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Alderman Ward 2 Position 2 Popular Name 54 Vote for one A Constitutional Amendment to Allow Jim Hedges the Governor to Retain His or Her U.S. President Bill Bayes Rick Evans Powers and Duties When Absent From U.S. Vice President the State. Independent Ballot Title Ray Dotson AN AMENDMENT TO THE Alderman Ward 3 Position 2 ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO Evan McMullin Vote for one ALLOW THE GOVERNOR TO U.S. President RETAIN HIS OR HER POWERS AND Nathan Johnson Kathryn Birkhead DUTIES WHEN ABSENT FROM THE U.S. Vice President STATE. Better For America Party Jeff Watson U.S. Senate Vote for one Mike Nelson FOR ISSUE NO. 2 Conner Eldridge Democratic Party Christopher Pryor AGAINST ISSUE NO. 2 Senator John Boozman Alderman Ward 4 Position 2 Republican Party Vote for one Frank Gilbert Libertarian Party Jeremy Lynch Kathy Jaycox Write-in U.S. Congress District 03 Vote for one Congressman Steve Womack Republican Party Steve Isaacson Libertarian Party Official Ballot Stub 2016 General Election Washington County, Arkansas November 8, 2016 STATE STATE ISSUE NO. 3 Issue No. 4 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT REFERRED TO THE PEOPLE BY PROPOSED BY PETITION OF THE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PEOPLE Popular Name Popular Name An Amendment to the Arkansas An Amendment to Limit Attorney Constitution Concerning Job Creation, Contingency Fees and Non-Economic Job Expansion, and Economic Damages in Medical Lawsuits Development. Ballot Title Ballot Title An amendment to the Arkansas AN AMENDMENT TO THE constitution providing that the practice ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO of contracting for or charging ENCOURAGE JOB CREATION, JOB excessive contingency fees in the EXPANSION, AND ECONOMIC course of legal representation of any DEVELOPMENT; REMOVING THE person seeking damages in an action LIMITATION ON THE PRINCIPAL for medical injury against a health-care AMOUNT OF GENERAL provider is hereby prohibited; providing OBLIGATION BONDS THAT MAY BE that an excessive medical-injury ISSUED UNDER AMENDMENT 82 OF contingency fee is greater than THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO thirty-three and one-third percent (33 ATTRACT LARGE ECONOMIC 1/3%) of the amount recovered; DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; providing that, for the purposes of AUTHORIZING A CITY, COUNTY, calculating the amount recovered, the TOWN, OR OTHER MUNICIPAL figure that shall be used is the net sum CORPORATION TO OBTAIN OR recovered after deducting any APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR ANY disbursements or costs incurred in CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION, connection with prosecution or INSTITUTION, OR INDIVIDUAL TO settlement of the medical-injury claim; FINANCE ECONOMIC providing that this limitation shall apply DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND TO whether the recovery is by settlement, PROVIDE ECONOMIC arbitration, or judgment; providing that DEVELOPMENT SERVICES; this limitation shall apply regardless of AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF the age or mental capacity of the BONDS UNDER AMENDMENT 62 OF plaintiff; providing that the prohibition of THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION excessive medical-injury fees does not FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT apply to workers’ compensation cases; PROJECTS; AUTHORIZING THE providing that the General Assembly TAXES THAT MAY BE PLEDGED TO may enact legislation which enforces RETIRE BONDS ISSUED UNDER this prohibition, and that it may also AMENDMENT 62 OF THE enact legislation that determines the ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR relative values of time payments or ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT periodic payments and governs the PROJECTS; REMOVING THE consequences and penalties for REQUIREMENT OF A PUBLIC SALE attorneys who contract for or charge FOR BONDS ISSUED UNDER excessive medical-injury contingency AMENDMENT 62 OF THE fees; providing that the General ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR Assembly shall enact a measure which ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT specifies a maximum dollar amount for PROJECTS; AND AUTHORIZING a non-economic damage award in any COMPACTS FOR ECONOMIC action for medical injury against a DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AMONG health-care provider, but that such a CITIES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND measure may never be smaller than CLASS, INCORPORATED TOWNS, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND ($250,000); providing that the General COUNTIES. Assembly may, after such enactment, amend it by a vote of two-thirds of each house, but that no such FOR ISSUE NO. 3 amendment may reduce the maximum dollar amount for a non-economic damage award in any action for AGAINST ISSUE NO. 3 medical injury against any health-care provider to less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000); providing that the Supreme Court shall adjust this figure for inflation or deflation on a biennial basis; and providing that this amendment does not supersede or amend the right to trial by jury. FOR ISSUE NO. 4 AGAINST ISSUE NO. 4 11 STATE STATE STATE Issue No. 5 casino patrons for that 12-month Marijuana Commission of five CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT period; subjecting each casino to the members, two appointed by the PROPOSED BY PETITION OF THE same income, property, sales, use, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, PEOPLE employment and other taxation as two appointed by the Speaker of the Popular Name any for-profit business located in the House of Representatives, and one AN AMENDMENT TO ALLOW county and city or town in which the appointed by the Governor; providing THREE CASINOS TO OPERATE IN casino is located, except that the that the Medical Marijuana ARKANSAS, ONE EACH IN THE Arkansas Gross Receipts Act of 1941 Commission shall administer and FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BOONE and local gross receipts taxes shall regulate the licensing of dispensaries COUNTY, OPERATED BY not apply to casino gaming receipts; and cultivation facilities; providing that 21 ARKANSAS GAMING AND allowing a casino to operate any day there shall be at least 20 but not more RESORTS, LLC; MILLER COUNTY, for any portion or all of any day; than 40 dispensary licenses issued 22 OPERATED BY MILLER COUNTY allowing the selling or complimentary and that there shall be at least 4 but GAMING, LLC; AND WASHINGTON serving of alcoholic beverages in not more than eight cultivation facility COUNTY, OPERATED BY casinos during all hours the casino licenses issued; setting initial WASHINGTON COUNTY GAMING, operates but otherwise subject to all maximum application fees for LLC applicable Arkansas laws involving dispensaries and cultivation facilities; Ballot Title the distribution and sale of alcohol; establishing qualifications for registry An amendment to the Arkansas permitting the shipment into Boone, identification cards; establishing Constitution authorizing three Miller, and Washington counties in standards to ensure that qualifying casinos to operate in Arkansas, one Arkansas of gambling devices patient registration information