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LAST CHANCE TO WEIGH IN Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Have you voted? l Douglas County residents can find
their voting location by visiting the County Clerk’s website to perform a search. You can access that page by visiting ljworld.com/vote2016.
l Voters may also call the
Douglas County Clerk’s office at 832-5167 for information about where to go vote.
l Lawrence Transit is giving free
bus rides to the polls all day today. For more information or for help planning a route, call 864-4644 or visit lawrencetransit.org.
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efore the Douglas County’s 60 polling sites open at 7 a.m. today, more than 27 percent of county voters will have already cast their ballots. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said 15,112 county voters cast in-person advance voting ballots before that option ended at noon Monday. The clerk’s office had also received 6,492 mail-in ballots as of Monday morning, of the 7,800 sent out to county voters, Shew said. The office should receive about another 1,400 mail-in ballots, he said. Those who haven’t returned mail-in ballots have until 7 p.m. today to get them to the Douglas County Clerk’s Office, Shew said. There is a dropbox in the courthouse’s south parking lot for that purpose; it will
be checked throughout the day, he said. The 21,604 ballots already in hand Monday shattered the county’s old record of 16,800 set in the 2008 November general election, Shew said. But even with the impressive advance voting totals, Shew doesn’t expect turnout this year to top 2008 when President Barack Obama was on the top of the Democratic ticket for the first time. Shew said heavy turnout in University of Kansas student precincts contributed to a record 55,000 county voters participating in the 2008 November general election. With fewer students voting in those precincts in 2012, the turnout total fell to 50,000, he said. “I’m predicting a number somewhere in the middle this year of
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Road signs aim to make streets more bike-friendly By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
Some motorists may need an extra reminder about sharing the road with bicyclists, and they may soon get it as local officials have approved thousands of dollars of new street signs. The Lawrence-Douglas County Bicycle Advisory Committee recommended the new bicycle signage policy, and committee leaders say the goal is to help improve safety. “The idea is that we educate both cyclists and drivers as to the correct interaction between bikes and cars, so that everybody can use the road as safely as possible,” said Lisa Hallberg, chair of the committee. T h e C i t y C o m mission recently approved SIGNS SUCH the new sigAS THIS nage policy, which ONE, on calls for the addi19th Street, tion of “Bikes May are intended Use Full Lane” to let drivers and “3-Foot Passknow bikes ing” signs. The can use the policy recommenfull street. dation notes that Rochelle Valverde/ some motorists and Journal-World Photo > SIGNS, 2A
Douglas County advance voters shatter record By Elvyn Jones
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DOUGLAS COUNTY ELECTION SUPERVISORS Joanna WiorkiewiczKuczera and Keith Wood on Monday pick up materials needed for their polling sites at the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
County administrator recovering after accident, vows to return to work By Elvyn Jones
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Local candidates make last-minute election pitch By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
With less than 24 hours left before polls opened, Rep. Tom Sloan was still out on Monday, walking door to door in west Lawrence, trying to reach any voters he could find who hadn’t
already voted. Sloan, a Republican, said he’s not taking anything for granted this year. Although he has won the 45th District each of the last 11 elections, he faces a strong challenge during a year when voters are saying they are angry and frustrated
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with the state of affairs in Topeka. “I’m utterly disgusted, frankly,” said Carol Randel, one of the voters Sloan spoke to Monday. Sloan said he has been hearing that a lot during this campaign. “There’s an awful lot of anti-Trump and
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anti-Brownback sentiment in the district,” Sloan said. In particular, he said, some voters seem willing to take out their frustrations by ousting any incumbent who has been in office while the state’s financial condition has degraded, even
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if it’s someone like Sloan who has been a vocal critic of Gov. Sam Brownback’s economic policies. “There’s a lot of that,” he said. “The Democratic Party has basically put out the same message in
Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug said from a Topeka hospital room Monday that he would definitely return to his job and to cycling. Weinaug was injured during a morning ride Nov. 2 when he lost control of his bicycle on Douglas Weinaug County Road 458 south of Lawrence. He suffered four cracked ribs, two
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