Election Day is this Saturday, April 27, as Winn Parish voters will go to their traditional polling places which will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Already, 501 parish voters have cast their ballots either early voting in-person at the courthouse or absentee through the mail.

On the ballot are two parishwide taxes. The Police Jury is seeking a half-cent sales tax for continued road maintenance. The School Board is asking for a 9.25-mill ad valorem tax for ongoing school maintenance.

There is also one issue that will be voted only by those registered in the Consolidated School District 11 (Dodson/Sikes area). That will be a 15-mill ad valorem tax to pay General Obligation Bonds for capital expenditures and improvements in that school district.

Sample ballots are posted on the wall outside the Registrar of Voters Office. Registrar Bryan Kelley advises that voters may also download the Secretary of State’s GeauxVote app which allows them to view their individual sample ballot and monitor results on Election night.

Of those early voters, office figures show that 423 are white, 76 black and 2 Other; 198 are male and 303 female; and 151 are Democrat, 464 are Republican and 86 are Other.