Now It Is Up to You: VOTE!

 

Over the last eight weeks, League of Women Voters (LWV) Park Rapids, a non partisan, nonprofit organization, has been providing voters with information on:

• Why our elections are secure,
• Ways to vote early,
• How to register before Election Day,
• How to deal with misinformation about voter security, and
• How to evaluate the news you are hearing about elections.


LWV Park Rapids and the Park Rapids Enterprise also presented four candidate forums for local candidates from the area: Park Rapids City Council, Park Rapids School Board, Hubbard County Commissioners and Menahga School Board. These forums are one of few places where all the candidates appeared together and all answered the same questions submitted by the public. These forums were streamed by the Park Rapid Enterprise and recorded by LWVPRA. Videos are on YouTube for anyone to view before they go to vote.


Both LWV Park Rapids and the Park Rapids Enterprise have posted on their websites all the relevant information voters need to make their plan to vote.

•     This link (https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/election-2022-resources) will take you to a section of the Enterprise's website that has all the informational and opinion articles posted plus voter guides. The Enterprise has made this section free as a public service to this community. Make sure you click on the “see more” and “load more” buttons as there is a lot of information.
•     This link (https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/whats-on-my-ballot/?searchTerm=sample%20ballot) will take you to the Secretary of State’s website to print out your sample ballot. We recommend you do this as boundaries have changed following the 2020 Census. Make sure you know whose names will be on your ballot; it might be different this year. Your polling place should be the same as last time, but you can check with the Hubbard County Auditor’s office if you have questions.
•     This link (https://lwvparkrapidsarea.blogspot.com/2022/10/links-to-all-four-candidate-forums-for.html) has the links to LWVPRA’s four videos.
•     Use this link to see forums from all around MN: (https://www.lwvmn.org/candidate-forums-2022).


Now it is up to you the Voters of Hubbard County to study the candidates and the issues, then go to your polling place to vote Nov 8. (You can vote early at the Hubbard County Courthouse until Nov 7). If you are voting by absentee ballot or live in a township where ballots are mailed, be aware it can take a week for mail to be delivered. Please consider delivering your ballot to the courthouse. All mail in ballots must arrive by election day. 


One last thing you can do is encourage others to vote. Then when the counting is done, congratulate the winners and thank everyone who stepped up to run for office.