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Calling all Nonpartisan registered voters! If you vote by mail and want to vote for president, you need to inform the Registrar of Voters which mail ballot you want by Jan. 6.
Otherwise, your nonpartisan mail ballot will not show any presidential candidates. Several weeks ago, the Registrar sent the County’s nearly 350,000 Nonpartisan mail ballot voters a pre-paid return postcard requesting their selection of ballot options for the March 3, 2020 primary election. If you’re Nonpartisan and just signed up to become a mail ballot voter, you can expect a postcard outlining your options. So far, nearly 37,000 Nonpartisan
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Nonpartisan Voters Wanting to Vote for President: What You Need to Know by Tracy DeFore
Founded in 2011
voters have returned their postcards or re-registered. If your postcard became lost among all the holiday mail, here is what you need to know. The American Independent, Democratic and Libertarian parties are allowing Nonpartisan voters to
take part in their presidential primaries. But Nonpartisan voters must request one of these ballots to vote for that party’s presidential candidate. Your status as a Nonpartisan voter will not change. Without the postcard, you can still go to sdvote.com to fill out the application and email it. Make sure you are registered to vote and listed as a Nonpartisan mail ballot voter before filling it out. SEE Nonpartisan Voters, page 4
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History Uncovered: Lindbergh-Schweitzer by Bill Swank
Shortly before the winter break, a meeting of the Site Governance Team at Lindbergh-Schweitzer Elementary School was held on December 19, 2019. Kristen Straeter, a preschool special education teacher, apologized for being late. She had just come from making gingerbread houses with her students and reported that some of the gumdrops actually Principal Victoria Peterson, SDUSD Facilities made it onto the Communications Supervisor Samer Naji and Special Education teacher Karin Wehsener at houses. (photo: Bill Swank) Lindbergh-Schweitzer School The first item of business was re-naming a name change helps, she supports it. the school (see December 2019 Cori Risty, a teacher at Squaremont column) and Principal Lindbergh-Schweitzer, explained that Victoria Peterson welcomed input consideration was given to naming from the community. Dialog on this the school Clairemont Mesa, because subject has been ongoing for it stands upon a mesa top. It was approximately a year. A decision had decided that would too confusing been made that Clairemont should be since the school is located on Balboa included in the name to signify Avenue and not on Clairemont Mesa Lindbergh-Schweitzer is a Boulevard. neighborhood school. Many names had been previously Yomna Nassar, a concerned parent, discussed, including Mark Hamill, wants Lindbergh-Schweitzer to remain a neighborhood school and if SEE History Uncovered, page 3