Vote Green Michiana!

There are four Green candidates running for municipal offices up for election this Tuesday November 4th.

Kathleen Petitjean’s name will appear on the ballot in South Bend’s 1st District in a two person race. Her Green Party affiliation should appear alongside her name. In order to cast your vote for Kathleen, you just check the bubble adjacent to her name as you would for your desired candidate in the other local races.

In order to cast a write-in ballot for the offices of South Bend Mayor, South Bend at-large Common Council, or Mishawaka at-large Common Council you must do the following in order to ensure that your vote is counted:

1. You must check the bubble adjacent to “Write-in” which should appear after the names of the candidates listed and then write in the name of the appropriate candidate for this office, for example, in South Bend’s mayoral race it ought look similar to this:

( ) Stephen Luecke (Democrat)

( ) Juan Manigault (Republican)

(X) Write-in ___Tom Brown ____________

To cast a write-in vote for Greens running in the South Bend at-large Common Council races (Karl Hardy) and Mishawaka at-large Common Council race (David Vollrath), you follow the same procedure as described above for this races, writing in Karl and David’s names in the space provided for “Write-in” candidates.

2. After you have finished casting your ballot for all of the races you intend to vote, please take note of the signs that should be posted at each polling station directing you to place your ballot in a separate bin that is set aside to collect those ballots that contain write-in votes. If you have questions as to where you should place your completed ballot, please ask a poll worker. The poll workers should have been instructed as to how ballots containing write-in votes should be treated.

*** If you have any trouble with casting a write-in ballot and/or you feel that you were given misinformation by a poll worker, please contact us: (votegreenmichiana (at) gmail (dot) com)***