Trego's Mountain Ear

To the Lincoln County Election Administrator:

Greetings,

Since House Bill 536, which was signed into law this past April, changes the rules regarding write-in candidates, I am requesting that our primary ballots be amended to accommodate these changes.

House Bill 536 ensures that votes for undeclared write-in candidates are not valid. Consequently, I would like to request that the write-in option be removed for races without declared candidates. If this is not feasible, I would ask that instead the ballots include a disclaimer stating that undeclared candidates cannot be elected and that votes for undeclared candidates will not be counted.

Without these changes, our ballots will be designed to deceive voters into believing we have a choice. If there is only one candidate in a race, it should be clear that there is only one possible vote. Anything else is a deception.

Thank you,

Sam McCurry