The 9-1-1 election is asking county voters to cast their ballots on a proposed monthly 50-cent cell phone fee. The vote on the cell-phone fee, if approved, will be used to enhance emergency calls from cell phones in the county.
The Sallisaw municipal election is asking Sallisaw voters to approve a half-cent sales tax that would help expand Carl Albert State College's (CASC) Sallisaw campus.
The money generated from the sales tax would be matched with expected funding from the state through a higher education bond package to build a two-story classroom-library facility, which would include more classrooms and labs.
Webb said that a valid marking, a filled in arrow, is shown on posters at the polling place and inside the voting booths. If voters make mistakes marking their ballots, Webb said they should not try to correct those errors. Instead, voters should return the ballot to precinct officials, who will destroy it and issue a new ballot to the voter.
Webb also urged voters to take their voter identification cards with them to the polls.
"Your voter identification card can help precinct officials find your name in the precinct registry and it may help them resolve the problem if you are not listed in the precinct registry," Webb said.
Voters whose names are not found in the precinct registry, or a voter disagrees with the information shown in the registry, may need to cast a provisional ballot. A provisional ballot is sealed in a special envelope and counted after election day if the voter's information can be verified by the county election board.
Webb said that voters who want to get through the line quickly should vote at mid-morning or mid-afternoon because those times are usually the two slowest periods for voting during the day.
"Anyone who is eligible and in line at the polling place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday will be entitled to vote," she said
