County commissioners answer questions on “Vote by Mail” process

 

by Janet Hansen

Commissioner Steve Dick commented that he had been hearing from quite a few people who had not received their cards to return for a ballot for the upcoming primary election’s Vote by Mail process. The board discussed the fact that state-wide forms were mailed only to those who voted in the 2004 and/or 2006 general elections. Those who did not receive an application card but who wish to vote by mail, may either contact the Ransom County Auditor’s office or print an application off the Secretary of State’s web site. There is also an application published in this issue of the Gazette which may be mailed in to request a ballot. Also included is information on how to fill out the forms and where to send them. For those who wish to vote in person, a county-wide precinct will be set up for that purpose in the community room at the Ransom County Courthouse on primary election day, June 10.

On another matter, Chris Sandvig, Chief Deputy, Ransom County Sheriff’s Department, explained to the board of commissioners that a group of Lisbon business owners and other citizens had brought complaints to the Lisbon City Council meeting on Monday evening, May 5. He stated that Police Chief Jeannette Persons had called on Tuesday morning to inform the sheriff’s department of the allegations. She reported that some of the complaints were that law enforcement in Lisbon and the Ransom County area as a whole is out of control. The group told the council, according to what Persons had told Sandvig, that people were being arrested for petty indiscretions and that law enforcement personnel were following people around waiting for them to do something wrong so that they could arrest them. 

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