Public Notice of Election Hempstead County, Arkansas

The Preferential Primary, annual School Election for Blevins, Hope, Mineral Springs, and Nashville School Districts, the Non Partisan General, and the county-wide Special Election will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 from 7:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the following Vote Center locations:
Hope: Bingen: Blevins: Cross Roads: Fulton: McCaskill:
Hope Coliseum
Bingen Community Center Word of Faith Church
Cross Roads Fire Station Fulton Library
McCaskill Community Center
Ozan: Patmos: Saratoga: Spring Hill: Washington:
Ozan Fire Station
Patmos Municipal Fire Station Saratoga School
Spring Hill Fire Department Washington Fire Station
Hempstead County voters can vote at any of the Vote Center locations regardless of the precinct where they reside.
Early voting will be held in the conference room on the ground floor of the Hempstead County Courthouse. Early voting will be conducted from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays beginning Tuesday, February 18, 2020 until Saturday, February 29, 2020. Early voting hours for Monday, March 2, 2020 are from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Absentee votes will be opened and counted at the Hempstead County Courthouse on March 3, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. The names of workers for the March 3, 2020 Election will be posted in the office of the County Clerk on February 18, 2020. Anyone who wishes to object to the service of one of these workers may do so by sending written notice to the Election Commission, P.O. Box 1420, Hope, Arkansas, 71802 or by delivering written notice to the Clerk’s office on the second floor of the Hempstead County Courthouse on or before February 28, 2020.
There will be three ballots available to the voter on Election Day. Voters may choose a Democratic Ballot or a Republican Ballot and still vote for the candidates in the Nonpartisan General and Annual School Elections on the same ballot. The third ballot available to voters is the Nonpartisan Judicial General ballot and it contains only the Nonpartisan Judicial candidates and annual School Elections on the ballot. Voters will also have a Special Election appearing on all three types of ballots. The following are the issues and names in order as they appear on the ballots:
Democratic Ballot
U.S. President
Michael R. Bloomberg Kamala Harris Joseph R. Biden Julian Castro
Andrew Yang Bernie Sanders Mosie Boyd Elizabeth Warren Michael Bennet Tulsi Gabbard Joe Sestak
Cory Booker
Pete Buttigieg
Amy Klobuchar
Tom Steyer
Steve Bullock Marianne Williamson John K. Delaney
Unopposed Democratic Candidates
U.S. Congress District 04, William H. Hanson
State Representative District 3, Larry D. Faulkner, Sr. Justice of Peace District 1, James Griffin
Justice of Peace District 3, Doris Brown
Justice of Peace District 5, Olen Dorman
Justice of Peace District 9, Jessie Henry
Justice of Peace District 11, B Keith Steed

Republican Ballot
U.S. President
Roque “Rocky” De La Fuenta Donald J. Trump
Bill Weld
Nonpartisan Judicial General Ballot
State Supreme Court Associate Justice Position 4
Barbara Womack Webb Judge Morgan “Chip” Welch
Court of Appeals Associate Judge District 04, Position 2
Emily White
Prosecuting Attorney Stephanie Potter Barrett
Unopposed Non Partisan Candidates
Court of Appeals Associate Judge District 04, Position 01, Court of Appeals Judge Brandon Harrison
Circuit Judge, District 08-North, Division 01, Joe C. Short Circuit Judge, District 08-North, Division 02, Duncan Culpepper, Circuit Judge
Circuit Judge, State District Court District 38, Judge Tony Yocom
Unopposed Republican Candidates
U.S. Senate, Senator Tom Cotton
U.S. Congress District 04, Representative Bruce Westerman State Senate District 11, Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr
State Representative District 19, Representative Justin Gonzales State Representative District 3, State Representative Danny Watson
Justice
Justice
Justice
Justice
Justice
DeRoan Township Constable, Charles Lester
Spring Hill Township Constable, Jimmy F Singleton
of Peace District 4, Ed B Darling
of the Peace District 6, Troy K. Lerew of the Peace District 7, Steve Atchley of Peace District 8, C David Clayton of Peace District 10, Jay Lathrop
Hope School Board Zone 1
Viney M. Johnson
Annual School Ballots
Nashville School Board Zone 2
Tem Gunter Misty Wilson
Annual School Millage
Hope School District 34.7 Mill School Tax
Blevins School District 31.3 Mill School Tax
Mineral Springs School District 34.0 Mill School Tax
Nashville School District 31.7 Mill School Tax
This represents no change from the previous year. The total tax levy proposed above includes 25.0 mills for the maintenance and operation of schools, 0 dedicated maintenance and operation mills, and 9.7 mills for debt service previously voted as a continuing debt service tax pledged
for the retirement of existed bonded indebtedness. The district may use surplus revenues produced each year by debt service millage for other
school purposes.
The total tax levy proposed above includes 25.0 mills for maintenance and operation of schools, 0 mills for dedicated maintenance and operation
millage (Capital Outlay/Current Expenditures) dedicated for purposes authorized by law and 6.30 mills for debt service previously voted as a
continuing debt service tax pledged for the retirement of existing bonded indebtedness. The district may use surplus revenues produced each
year by debt service millage for other purposes.
This represents no change from the previous year. The total tax levy proposed above includes 25.0 mills for the maintenance and operation of
schools, 0 mills for dedicated maintenance and operation mills dedicated for 0 purposes, and 9 mills for debt service previously voted as a
continuing debt service tax pledged for the retirement of existing bonded indebtedness. The district may use surplus revenues produced each
year by debt service millage for other purposes.
This represents no change from the previous year. The total tax levy proposed above includes 25 mills for the maintenance and operation of
schools and 6.7 mills for debt service previously voted as a continuing debt service tax pledged for the retirement of existing bonded
indebtedness. The district may use surplus revenues produced each year by debt service millage for other school purposes.

1% County-Wide Sales and Use Tax
Special Election
Adoption of a 1% local sales and use tax within Hempstead County for a period of two (2) years, the net collections of which remaining after deduction of the administrative charges of the State of Arkansas and required rebates, will be distributed only to the County and used to fund general purposes of County government. If approved, the levy of the tax will expire on June 30, 2022.