Write-ins eligible for SWPPD, town ballots; MPPD ballot corrected

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Red Willow County Clerk has released the names of candidates who will run as write-ins for Indianola mayor and the Bartley village board on the Nov. 2 election.

And, one candidate was inadvertently left off the McCook Public Power District board of directors in a sample ballot published last Friday.

The deadline was Friday for filing an affidavit with the county clerk to run as a write-in candidate for the general election, according to Pauletta Gerver, Red Willow County Clerk.

Four candidates will run as write-ins for board member of the Southwest Public Schools to fill the vacancy left by Don Longnecker's declination of nomination.

The candidates are Jada A. Carpenter, Kim Brooks, Kevin L. Potthoff and Bernard J. Walz.

John Chisholm filed an affidavit to run as a write-in for mayor of Indianola, and Charles M. Tines filed an affidavit for the Bartley Village Board of Trustees.

"A candidates who files a notarized affidavit shall be entitled to all write-in votes for the candidate even if only the last name of the candidate has been written if such last name is reasonably close to the proper spelling," according to Section 32-615.

The name must be written on the ballot and the oval next to the name must be filled in for the vote to count, Gerver said.

In the McCook Public Power District for Board of Directors - Subdivision 5, a 6 year term, the name Stanley Quigley was inadvertently omitted on the sample ballot in the Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 issue of the McCook Daily Gazette.

Mr. Quigley is the only candidate for this position.