Thinking about voting - local elections

[dreamshark]

Okay, it's not that hard to find out where my polling place is.
It's not even too difficult to be reminded which ward-precinct I am in (since I got yanked out of Ward 10 and moved to Ward 8 I have been unable to remember).

But how the hell do you find out which Park District, School Board District, Hennepin County Commissioner District you are in? There used to be maps online and I can't find ANY of them. I've just given up completely on the Soil and Water Conservation Board. Is that even an elective office anymore? And is there still a Library Board?

Anybody have links to voting district maps?

ETA: Okay, I found a map for Hennepin County Commisioner Districts, but it is hella misleading. What this map says to me is that I am in District 4 (Minneapolis). But when I drilled down a couple of clicks to a more detailed map it turned out I'm in District 3, which is labeled St. Louis Park on the larger map. Terrible.

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[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Try Ballotpedia. They seem to be an excellent aggregator of ballot info. We just used them for going through the horrible California props. (Competing death penalty props! Competing plastic bag ban props! Many mysterious and/or flawed props!)

https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_elections,_2016

[sraun]

The MN Secretary of State has a page that will give you a sample ballot based on your address. Would that help?

It's at http://myballotmn.sos.state.mn.us/

[quadong.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to say. Whenever possible, I try to get a look at exactly what my ballot will look like, because otherwise it is nearly inevitable that I am surprised by some obscure race.

This year, voting in St Charles, IL, that turned out not to be possible, nor could I find any comprehensive list, and I had to search various and sundry websites to figure out what fire protection district I was in and so forth. (Even though my voter registration card came with a list of districts, it didn't list that one!)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I already voted. There's no soil and water conservation districts on this year's ballot.

The Minneapolis Library Board merged with the Hennepin County Library Board a few years back, even before they built the new library downtown.

You will be faced with a constitutional amendment, for which I am urging everyone to vote YES. It has to do with how legislators get paid, and I can discuss at length if you want.

K.