Depending on where you live in Faribault County that will make a difference on what you see on the State Primary Ballot. That election is set for Aug. 11, with early voting already in progress.

State Partisan Primary Ballot

Everyone will have the State Partisan Ballot where all of the candidates for state offices will be listed by political party.

Voters must just make choices for either the Republican (GOP) side of the ballot or the DFL side of the ballot. Making any choices on more than just the one side will cancel your vote.

The winning candidate for each party will then face off in the General Election set for Nov. 3.

The Republicans have nine candidates for U.S. Senator to choose from while the DFL has six. Top contenders are Adam Schwarze and Michele Tafoya for the GOP and Peggy Flanagan and Angie Craig for the DFL.

There are seven GOP candidates for governor and seven DFLers as well. Leading GOP candidates are Mike Lindell, Lisa Demuth and Kendall Qualls. For the DFL it is Amy Klobuchar.

For U.S. Representative for District 1 the GOP has incumbent Brad Finsted facing two challengers, while the DFL has Jake Johnson and Alex Easton facing off.

There are contests for several other state offices, as well.

If you are a resident of State Senate District 23, and State Representative District 23A, you will see choices on the ballot.

For State Senator the GOP lists Gene Dornink and DFL has two candidates, Angie Hanson and Alex Eaton. For State Representative, the GOP has Nick Ronnenberg and the DFL has two to choose from , Colin J. Minehart and Joe Staloch.

State Non-Partisan Ballot

On the back side of the Partisan Ballot is the State Non-Partisan Ballot

That ballot will have two Blue Earth Area School District questions for voters who reside in the Blue Earth Area School District.

The first question is:

Shall the School Board of Independent School District No. 2860 (Blue Earth Area Schools) be authorized to issue its general obligation school building bonds in an amount not to exceed $63,310,000 to provide funds for the acquisition and betterment of school sites and facilities, including the construction and equipping of a new PreK-6 elementary school facility; the construction of renovations and improvements to the existing High School site and facility; and the decommissioning of the existing Elementary/Middle School facility?

The second question, which can only pass if the first one is passed by the voters, has the following language:

If the School District Question 1 is approved, shall the school board of Independent School District No. 2860 (Blue Earth Area Schools) also be authorized to issue general obligation school building bonds in an amount not to exceed $10,300,000 to provide funds for the acquisition and betterment of school sites and facilities, including the construction and equipping of a multi-purpose activities space at the new elementary school site; and HVAC renovations at the high school?

If you are a resident of County Commissioner District No. 4, you will see a list of four names to choose from. The top two vote getters will move on the face off in the November General Election.

Those four candidates are Arron Kalis, Darrel L. Robertson, Dana James Gates and Jacob Kral.

You can learn more about those four candidates elsewhere in this issue of the Register.