Vote445Jamestown (CSi) The primary election along with Jamestown City Council, City Park Board and Jamestown Public School Board elections will be held June 14, 2016 with the polls open at the Jamestown Civic Center from 7-a.m. to 7-p.m. Rural Stutsman County Precincts are in Medina, Kensal, and Pingree.

Jamestown voters will elect three city council candidates, with five running for election, and vote for two Jamestown City Park Board candidates.

Three Jamestown Public School board city seats are up for election with four candidates.

One rural seat is up for election with one candidate filing for the seat.

School board voting is on a district-wide basis, as voters may cast ballots for both city and rural seats.

Stutsman County Commission candidates will be nominated to run in the November General Election.

Two ballot measures will be decided in the primary election.

State Measure 1 asks voters if they approve Senate Bill 2351, the corporate farm law, which if approved will allow corporations to own and operate hog and dairy farms of up to 640 acres in North Dakota. A “yes” vote means approval.

Stutsman County Measure 1 asks county voters if they would approve changing the county state’s attorney position to an appointed position or leave it an elected position. A “yes” vote means approval of changing the state’s attorney to an appointed position, at the end of the current term.

For the Primary Election, voters can only vote under one political party on the primary election ballot. If anyone votes for candidates in different political parties on the same ballot, that ballot will be disqualified.

On the non-party portion of the ballot voters will decide on the state superintendent of public instruction, North Dakota Supreme Court justice and Southeast District Court judges.

The state ballot for North Dakota political parties lists candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, North Dakota Legislature and governor. Also listed on the political parties portion of the ballot are the state auditor, state treasurer, state insurance commissioner and public service commissioner

Other questions are on the non-party ballot are, whether the City Council should publish its meeting minutes in the official city newspaper. The other question asks if the Jamestown Public School District should publish a record of the proceedings from the School Board in a newspaper of general circulation of the school district for the next two years. Currently the Jamestown City Council and Jamestown Public School Board publish meeting minutes in The Jamestown Sun.

In Valley City and Barnes County, voters will decide on the contested races for Valley City Commission. Four candidates are running for two seats up for election.

The Barnes County Commission races are for nominations to run for seats in the November 2016 General Election.

The polling placing is the Barnes County Courthouse with the polling hours from 7-a.m., to 7-p.m.

At the polls voter identification includes:

A valid drivers license

Non-drivers ID card

Tribal ID card

Student ID certificate

Long-term care certificate

Those items must include, name, North Dakota residential address, and date of birth.