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MADISON COUNTY, NEBRASKA
GENERAL ELECTION
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
COUNTYWIDE SAMPLE BALLOT
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The following sample ballot lists all candidates and issues throughout Madison County. It does not reflect
the order or rotation of candidates on the official ballot for your voting precinct. Only candidates and
issues that pertain to your voting precinct will appear on your official ballot.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Polls will be open from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Polling Place Information:
Website: https://www.votercheck.necvr.ne.gov/
Contact Madison County Clerk’s Office at (402) 454-3311, Ext. 136 or Ext. 137
SAMPLE BALLOT, GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Madison County
A
State of Nebraska
B
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS:
1. TO VOTE, YOU MUST DARKEN THE OVAL
COMPLETELY (
).
2. Use black ink pen.
3. To vote for a WRITE-IN candidate write in the
name on the line provided AND darken the oval
completely.
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STATE TICKET
COUNTY TICKET
For Secretary of State
Vote for ONE
For County Clerk
Vote for ONE
John A. Gale
Nancy Scheer
Republican
Republican
Ben Backus
4. DO NOT CROSS OUT OR ERASE.
If you make a mistake, ask for a new ballot.
5. DO NOT FOLD THE BALLOT.
UNITED STATES SENATORIAL TICKET
Libertarian
For Clerk of the District Court
Vote for ONE
For State Treasurer
Vote for ONE
For United States Senator
6 Year Term
Vote for ONE
Monica Rotherham
Republican
Don Stenberg
Republican
Ben Sasse
Michael J. O'Hara
Republican
Democratic
Dave Domina
Michael Knebel
Democratic
Libertarian
For County Treasurer
Vote for ONE
Jim Jenkins
Donna J. Primrose
By Petition
Republican
Todd F. Watson
For Attorney General
Vote for ONE
By Petition
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET
For Register of Deeds
Vote for ONE
Doug Peterson
Republican
For Representative in Congress
District 1 - 2 Year Term
Vote for ONE
Janet Stewart
Nancy Gross
Democratic
Republican
Jeff Fortenberry
For Auditor of Public Accounts
Vote for ONE
Republican
Dennis P. Crawford
For County Sheriff
Vote for ONE
Democratic
Charlie Janssen
Vern Hjorth
Republican
Republican
Amanda McGill
STATE TICKET
Democratic
For Governor and Lt. Governor
Vote for ONE
Pete Ricketts
Governor
Mike Foley
Lt. Governor
Chuck Hassebrook
Governor
Jane Raybould
Lt. Governor
Mark G. Elworth Jr.
Governor
Scott Zimmerman
Lt. Governor
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For County Commissioner
District 1
Vote for ONE
COUNTY TICKET
For County Assessor
Vote for ONE
Republican
Ron Schmidt
Republican
Jeff Hackerott
Republican
Democratic
For County Commissioner
District 3
Vote for ONE
For County Attorney
Vote for ONE
Libertarian
Jim Prauner
Joseph M. Smith
Governor
Republican
Republican
Lt. Governor
For County Surveyor
Vote for ONE
LaVern F. Schroeder
Republican
A
B
C
SAMPLE BALLOT, GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Madison County
A
State of Nebraska
B
C
COUNTY TICKET
NONPARTISAN TICKET
NONPARTISAN TICKET
For Public Defender
Vote for ONE
Northeast Community College
For Board of Governors - District 4
Vote for ONE
Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - At Large
Vote for ONE
Matthew Headley
Republican
Terry F. Nelson
Joel J. Hansen
Donald E. Frank
James Wapelhorst
NONPARTISAN TICKET
Judge of the Nebraska Workers'
Compensation Court
6 Year Term
Northeast Community College
For Board of Governors - District 5
Vote for ONE
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 1
Vote for ONE
Shall Judge Thomas E. Stine be retained in office?
Julie Robinson
Yes
Lon Olson
No
Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 1
Vote for ONE
Judge of the Nebraska Workers'
Compensation Court
6 Year Term
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 2
Vote for ONE
Aaron Zimmerman
Shall Judge Laureen Van Norman be retained in
office?
Chad A. Korth
Frank Pollard
Yes
No
Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 2
Vote for ONE
Judge of the Nebraska Workers'
Compensation Court
6 Year Term
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 3
Vote for ONE
Ken Peitzmeier
David W. Saalfeld
Luke Winkelbauer
Shall Judge Michael K. High be retained in office?
Yes
No
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 4
2 Year Term
Vote for ONE
Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 3
Vote for ONE
Northeast Community College
For Board of Governors - District 1
Vote for ONE
Marion Shafer
Matt Bailey
Don Oelsligle
Lower Elkhorn Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 4
Vote for ONE
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 4
Vote for ONE
Cory Beller
Alan Demmel
A
B
Clint Johannes
C
SAMPLE BALLOT, GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Madison County
A
State of Nebraska
B
C
NONPARTISAN TICKET
NONPARTISAN TICKET
NONPARTISAN TICKET
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 5
Vote for ONE
For Elkhorn Rural Public Power District
Subdivision 1 - 6 Year Term
Vote for ONE
For Educational Service Unit No. 8
District 9
Vote for ONE
Mark Miller
Mark Seier
Arnie Stuthman
For Trustee Norfolk Sanitary District
Vote for ONE
For Elkhorn Rural Public Power District
Subdivision 2 - 6 Year Term
Vote for ONE
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 6
Vote for ONE
Ransom G. Roman
Tim D. Means
For Norfolk Airport Authority
6 Year Term
Vote for up to TWO
Joseph H. Birkel
For Stanton County Public Power District
At Large - 2 Year Term
Vote for ONE
Doris Kingsbury
Timothy Westerhold
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 7
Vote for ONE
John R. Gall
Randy Neuharth
Rolland L. Lorensen
Donald M. Kavan
Brent Zakovec
For Stanton County Public Power District
At Large - 6 Year Term
Vote for up to TWO
Donald E. Frank
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 8
Vote for ONE
Brad Wehner
Gary Koehlmoos
Jim McDermott
Weldon Marotz
Tilden Rural Fire District
Levy Override
Shall Tilden Rural Fire District be allowed to levy a
property tax not to exceed 5 cents per one hundred
dollars of taxable valuation of property in excess of
the limits prescribed by law for the fiscal year of
2015 and including also the fiscal years of 2016,
2017, 2018 and 2019 for the purposes of general
operation and to increase the restricted funds base
by 15% over the allowable growth percentages?
For
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - Subdistrict 9
Vote for ONE
Against
For Educational Service Unit No. 8
District 5
Vote for ONE
Donald F. Veskerna
Bill Kuester
Ray Casey
For Educational Service Unit No. 8
District 7
Vote for ONE
Lower Platte North
Natural Resources District
For Board of Directors - At Large
Vote for ONE
Don C. Schmidt
Gene Ruzicka
A
B
C
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Madison County
A
State of Nebraska
B
C
SCHOOL TICKET
SCHOOL TICKET
CITY TICKET
For Madison Public
School Board Member
Vote for up to THREE
For Newman Grove Public
School Board Member
Vote for up to THREE
For Mayor of Battle Creek
Vote for ONE
Barry E. Ponton
Steve Ruh
D. Jean McCloud
Harlow Hanson
John Krueger
Jane Daberkow
Scott Nelson
For Member of Battle Creek
City Council
Vote for up to TWO
James Knapp
Eric Kraft
Richard Vakoc
John E. Hrabanek
For Humphrey Public
School Board Member
Vote for up to FIVE
For Norfolk Public
School Board Member
Vote for up to THREE
Julia Preister
Bruce Mitchell
Kevin D. Kallweit
Linnea M. Gettman
Sandy Classen
Tammy Day
Ronald J. Zach
Patti Gubbels
Alan G. Huettner
For Mayor of Madison
Vote for ONE
Alvin Brandl
Brenda Jones
For Member of Madison
City Council
Vote for up to TWO
Robert L. Jurgens
For Battle Creek Public
School Board Member
Vote for up to THREE
Paul A. Kellen
Tim Kruid
Brent R. Bode
Paul Hrabanek
For Elkhorn Valley Public
School Board Member
Vote for up to THREE
Adam McCracken
Michael Krick
Brett Freudenburg
Bill Osborn
Jerry R. Dittrich
For Mayor of Newman Grove
Vote for ONE
Mike Rood
Fawn Steiff
Sonét S. Smutny
For Newman Grove Public
School Board Member - 2 Year Term
Vote for ONE
John Wyant
David W. Fowlkes
A
B
C
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Madison County
A
State of Nebraska
B
CITY TICKET
CITY TICKET
CITY TICKET
For Member of Newman Grove
City Council
Vote for up to TWO
For Member of Norfolk
City Council - Ward 1
Vote for ONE
City of Norfolk
Proposal to Increase
Local Sales and Use Tax Rate
Shall the governing body of the incorporated
municipality – the City of Norfolk – increase the local
sales and use tax rate by an additional one-half of
one percent (1/2%) and impose a sales and use tax
at the increased rate upon the same transactions
within such municipality on which the State of
Nebraska is authorized to impose a tax for 36
months with all revenues generated by the additional
one-half of one percent (1/2%) used for library
renovation, expansion, and equipment?
YES
Donald C. Roberg
Corey Granquist
By Petition
Myron J. Nelson
Daniel Spray
By Petition
Robert Strong
For Member of Norfolk
City Council - Ward 2
Vote for ONE
For Mayor of Tilden
Vote for ONE
Dave Fauss
Leo Botsford
For Member of Norfolk
City Council - Ward 3
Vote for ONE
Ron Knight
Rob Merrill
For Member of Tilden
City Council
Vote for up to THREE
Jerry C. Johnson
For Member of Norfolk
City Council - Ward 4
Vote for ONE
Jeremy Jensen
Tom Nelson
Shane Clausen
Pat Decker
VILLAGE TICKET
For Meadow Grove Village
Board of Trustees
Vote for up to THREE
Lindsay Ottis
City of Tilden
Sales and Use Tax Proposal
Bev Boyer
Shall the governing body of the City of Tilden, Nebraska,
retain the current sales and use tax upon the same
transactions within such municipality on which the State
of Nebraska is authorized to impose a tax, and modify
the use of the one percent (1%) sales and use tax
previously used for support of the Tilden Community
Hospital, to now be used one-half percent (1/2%) for
support of Tilden public emergency services, and onehalf percent (1/2%) for water, sewer, paving and other
Tilden infrastructure projects, with an effective date of
April 1, 2015, to start the new uses and to terminate the
old use?
Dewayne Rohlff
YES
NO
A
C
B
NO
A “YES” Vote: If a majority of the votes cast upon
such question shall be in favor of increasing such
local sales and use tax rate by an additional one-half
of one percent (1/2%), then the governing body of
such incorporated municipality – the City of Norfolk –
shall be empowered as provided by Section 7727,142 of the Nebraska Statutes and shall forthwith
proceed to increase the local sales and use tax rate
from one and one-half percent (1 1/2%) to two
percent (2%) and impose a sales and use tax at the
increased rate pursuant to the Local Option
Revenue Act, with all revenues generated by the
additional one-half of one percent (1/2%) to be used
for the public infrastructure project of library
renovation, expansion, and equipment.
A “NO” Vote: If a majority of those voting on the
question shall be opposed to such an increase of
the local sales and use tax rate by an additional onehalf of one percent (1/2%), then the governing body
of the incorporated municipality shall not impose
such a tax increase and the local sales and use tax
rate will remain unchanged at one and one-half
percent (1 1/2%).
Additional Information Regarding City of Norfolk
Proposed Sales and Use Tax Rate Increase: If the
additional sales and use tax is approved, it will not
result in a reduction or elimination of any other taxes
or fees. All additional revenue will be used solely for
library renovation, expansion, and equipment. The
revenue will be collected for 36 months beginning in
2015. The City of Norfolk has entered into an
interlocal agreement with Madison County for the
long term development of unified governance of the
City of Norfolk library renovation, expansion, and
equipment public infrastructure project specifically
as is provided in the interlocal agreement for the
cooperative use of the Norfolk Public Library to
provide library services to City and County residents.
Additional revenue collected from increasing the
sales and use tax rate by one half of one percent
(1/2%) will be used solely to fund the public
infrastructure project of the City of Norfolk library
renovation, expansion, and equipment, and none
(0%) will be used for purposes of the administration
of the interlocal agreement.
C
SAMPLE BALLOT, GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
Madison County
A
B
State of Nebraska
C
PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION
Initiative Measure 425
A vote " FOR " will amend the Nebraska statute
establishing a minimum wage rate for employees to
increase the current state minimum wage from seven
dollars and twenty-five cents ($7.25) per hour to eight
dollars ($8.00) per hour on January 1, 2015, and to nine
dollars ($9.00) per hour on January 1, 2016.
A vote " AGAINST " will not cause the Nebraska
statute establishing a minimum wage rate for employees
to be amended in such manner.
Shall the Nebraska statute establishing a minimum
wage rate for employees be amended to increase the
current state minimum wage from seven dollars and
twenty-five cents ($7.25) per hour to eight dollars
($8.00) per hour on January 1, 2015, and to nine
dollars ($9.00) per hour on January 1, 2016?
For
Against
A
B
C