Posted by Dinah on November 7, 2006, at 13:54:47
In reply to Constitutional Ammendments » Dinah, posted by Declan on November 7, 2006, at 12:45:35
The state of Louisiana has a very specific constitution, and nearly everything legislators would legislate in other places has to be passed by the people here. I'm sure there was a very good reason for that, so I'm not complaining.
This election, the big amendment is reducing the number of assessors in Orleans Parish (which has contiguous borders with the City of New Orleans) from seven to the one that every other parish has.
I think it would be an easy sell, except that people suddenly remember that although they seem to want only one assessor, they want *their* assessor to be that one. So I'm curious to see what happens.
The November elections aren't generally a big event for deciding local races. I don't know all the ins and outs, but we usually hold elections on Saturdays. And we have an open primary system, so you don't vote for your republican or democratic candidate, you vote for whoever you want. If no one gets over fifty percent of the vote, it goes to a runoff. There's a lot of controversy about the effect of this on federal elections, since if they hold the "primary" for house and senate on election Tuesday, a lot of races will be decided right there, but some won't. But if they hold the "primary" earlier, most races will be decided before election day. It looks like they settled on holding the "primary" on election day, since there were more than two candidates.
The presidential election of course is different. We have to vote according to our parties in the primaries.
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