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November 8 General Election - vote 7:00 am to 8:00 pm in most areas Some plain talk... Absentee voting means getting your ballot and voting in person or by mail before election day. See the Absentee voting section. Ballot is the official paper or card list of who or what you can vote for in the election and on which you mark your choices. You receive the ballot at your polling place or when you vote absentee. DFL means the Democratic- Farmer-Labor Party, one of the two major political parties currently active in Minnesota. General Election is the election that picks the final winners! Decides who will actually fill the offices - on November 8. IR means the Independent-Republicans of Minnesota, one of the two major political parties currently active in Minnesota. Office means a specific job to which people seek election. Each office has unique powers and respon sibilities. Polling place is where you go to vote on election day (polling means voting). You can also register to vote there. Call your county auditor or city clerk’s office to get the address. See the section For more informa tion for county phone numbers. Primary Election is an election to reduce the field candidates. The winners go on to the general election. All people running as DFL and IR candidates will be in the primary election and also many (but not all) local candidates. For the DFL and IR candidates, you will need to decide which party's candidates you will vote for; you cannot vote for people in both parties. To be held on September 13. Voter registration means having your name on the official list of voters. You must be registered for the address where you live before you can vote. Voter registration card is the little card or form you fill out with your name and address and turn in to become amendment will pass. This means that not voting on the amendment has tne same effect as voting NO. OFF-TRACK WAGERING ON HORSE RACES: TO AUTHORIZE: [ 1 yes 1 NO "Shall the Minnesota Consti tution be amended to permit off-track wagering on horse racing in a manner prescribed by law?" The Attorney General has this to say regarding the proposed amendment: In Chapter 626, the legislature also adopted statutory provisions that will be efiective only if the people ratify the proposed amendment. The statutory provisions would require the director of pari-mutuel racing to sub mit a report to the legislature by February 1, 1995, containing the director ’s recommendations on legisla tion to authorize and regulate off-track pari-mutuel bet ting on horse racing. The report would be required to contain draft legislation that embodies the director's recommendations. The draft legislation would be re quired to provide that: (1) off-track pari-mutuel betting be conducted primarily to support on-track horse racing and not supplant it; (2) a separate license be required to operate each off-track betting location; (3) off-track betting locations be limited to facilities with television displays of live horse racing, adequate seat ing and dining and beverage service; and (4) a limited number of off-track betting locations be licensed, with a reasonable geographic distribution of locations around the state. If the amendment is adopted, article X, section 8 of the Minnesota Constitution will read as follows (deletions indicated by strikeouts): Sec. 8. The legislature may authorize on track pari mutuel betting on horse racing in a manner prescribed by law. For more information... To find out where \o vote to got a voter registratKX> card or to got an absentee votir>g appticatior.. call your county auditor or election department