We goofed last week with the dates that candidates can qualify. The qualifying starts Monday, April 26.

If your elected officers are doing a good job and running your business like it should be run, you don’t need to read the rest of this article, for most of them will be asking to keep their job by re-election. If by chance you, the voters, are not satisfied, read on.

Just in case you haven’t heard, we’re going to have two primary elections on July 20 and a general election on November 2, and possibly a few in between.

You say, that’s a long time off, but--------

Two county commission seats and two board of education members’ spots are up for grabs.

In District Two, the county commission office and the board of education office will be open for qualifying.

In District Four, the county commission office and the board of education office will be open for qualifying.

Two candidates have announced that they will run for election to date. They are Renza Israel for Board of Education in District Four, and Jimmy Phillips for county commission in District Four.

The qualifying time will be short. A candidate has four and one-half days to qualify as a Democrat or a Republican candidate from Monday, April 26, until Thursday, April 30, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and on Friday, April 23, from 9 a.m.-noon.

It will be only those four offices to run for locally, but the General Primary/ Special elections will give voters quite a choice to elect or re-elect. 11

If you are not registered to vote, you have until June 21, 2010, to go to the office of the registrar to register to vote in one of these primaries or special elections on July 20.