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Supreme Court election matters
Early voting for the Oct. 17 election concludes Saturday.
Early voting began a few days ago and will continue each day until Saturday from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Registrar of Voters office at Concordia Parish Courthouse in Vidalia. Early voters must present their current Louisiana driver's license or a Louisiana special identification card or another generally recognized picture ID to vote. Any identification must include a voter's name, address and the voter's signature.
The only issue or election on the Oct. 17 ballot is an election to fill an unexpired term on the Louisiana Supreme Court. Terms on the Supreme Court run 10 years.
Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor of Winnsboro resigned in late May from the District 4 seat of the Supreme Court. Traylor, a Republican, stepped down to pursue a legal career in private practice.
The two candidates vying to succeed Traylor are 4th Judicial District Court Judge Marcus Clark and Pineville attorney Jimmy Faircloth. Both candidates are Republicans.
Clark, of West Monroe, has served on the 4th Judicial District Court bench of Morehouse and Ouachita parishes since January 1997. Prior to his election to the District Court, Clark was an assistant district attorney. Clark also is a former law enforcement officer.
Faircloth most recently served as Gov. Bobby Jindal's executive counsel. He was appointed to that post when Jindal took office in January 2008. Before Faircloth was named the governor's executive counsel, he practiced law at his own law firm in Pineville.
We recognize voters may not be overly enthusiastic to vote in a state Supreme Court election. However, voters owe it to themselves to vote because it is their constitutional right to do so. Voters also owe it to the men and women who died serving our nation to guarantee an individual's right to vote. |
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