Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 5th to cast ballots in city commission, city council and school board races.

In the Junction City Commission election there are four candidates vying for three seats on the governing body. They include Pat Landes, Holly Voelcker, Ronna Larson and Nathan Butler. Two will be elected to four-year terms and one candidate to a two year term on the commission.

In the USD 475 Board of Education race five candidates are vying for four seats. They include Jim Schmidt, Kristy Haden, Tom Brungardt, Anwar Khoury and Ron Johnson. All four seats are for four year terms.

There are no candidates on the ballot for Milford City Council or Grandview Plaza City Council ballots. Geary County Clerk Rebecca Nordyke said there are three positions in each of those cities, but no one filed. “So there are three write-in spaces on those ballots so voters can write in three different people’snames, or if they don’t want to vote for three they can vote for one or two and we will compile those results on election night.”

The election results will be unofficial on Tuesday night. A new statutory requirement will require an audit of the votes and then as in the past a canvass of the votes, which will be done in Geary County on Nov. 15th after the audit is completed. Any provisional ballots would have to be tabulated at the canvass and could change the final vote totals, or in a close race an election outcome.