The 2024 presidential election is less than a week away, with the polls opening right at 7 a.m. on Nov. 5. This election will determine the next president of the United States, but there are other categories to vote for on the ballot.
This article is going to take a deeper look at each section of this year’s ballot in Eau Claire, naming every person who is running and what main policies they are advocating for during this election.
This article will go in the same order the candidates are listed on the ballot. There is also a write-in portion on each section if voters would like to vote for a specific person not listed directly on the ballot.
President of the United States
Kamala D. Harris and Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz are running through the Democratic Party. According to her website, Harris is campaigning to cut down taxes for middle class families, bring down housing costs, bring down healthcare costs and grow small businesses to name a few.
Donald J. Trump and Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance are running through the Republican Party. According to his website, Trump is campaigning to seal the U.S. border, carry out a deportation operation, end inflation, focus on manufacturing in the U.S. and tax cuts for workers to name a few.
Randall Terry and Vice Presidential candidate Stephen Broden are running through the Constitution Party. According to his website, Terry is campaigning to focus on everything not specially delegated to the federal government that goes to the states, take education away from the federal government and promote gun rights to start.
Chase Russell Oliver and Vice Presidential candidate Mike ter Maat are running through the Libertarian Party. According to his website, Oliver is campaigning to cut inflation, simplify the immigration process, lower healthcare costs and remove the department of education as some highlights.
Jill Stein and Vice Presidential candidate Rudolph Ware are running through the Wisconsin Green Party. According to her website, Stein is campaigning to increase wage gains for workers, lower the costs of housing, lower the costs of healthcare, implement the Real Green New Deal Project (an ecosocialist sustainability project) and defund the military to name a few.
Claudia De la Cruz and Vice Presidential candidate Karina Garcia are running through the Party for Socialism and Liberation. According to her website, De La Cruz is campaigning to turn the top 100 biggest corporations in the U.S. into public property, outlaw lobbying, end U.S. aid to Israel and cut the military budget as some examples.
Cornel West and Vice Presidential candidate Melina Abdullah are running through the Justice For All Party. According to his website, West is campaigning to dismantle the systematic racism of Black mothers in healthcare, strengthen child protective services, promote affordable and accessible housing, increase accessible technology and center public schools in the department of education to get a bit of an idea of their goals.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan are running through the We The People Party. According to his website, Kennedy is campaigning to reorient federal health care agencies towards chronic disease research, abstain from military interventions, promote freedom of speech and promote the freedom to bear arms as some examples.
United States Senator
Tammy Baldwin is running through the Democratic Party. According to her website, Baldwin is campaigning to lower prescription drug prices, promote manufacturing in Wisconsin, promote the right for women to choose when it comes to reproductive health and support the care of veterans through community support and good paying jobs and more on their website.
Eric Hovde is running through the Republican Party. According to his website, Hovde is campaigning to lower inflation, lower the amount of immigrants let into the country, promote the U.S. getting involved in world politics and reduce healthcare costs and increase healthcare transparency and more through his campaigning.
Phil Anderson is running through the Disrupt The Corruption Party. According to his website, Anderson is campaigning to return troops home and sell foreign military installations, promote free speech, abolish the CIA, promote digital currency and legalize cannabis to list a few.
Thomas Leager is running through the America First Party. According to his website, Leager is campaigning to close U.S. borders, promote U.S. manufacturing, end gender theory in education and shrink the size of the federal government to highlight a small variety.
Representative in Congress – District 3
Rebecca Cooke is running through the Democratic Party. According to her website, Cooke is campaigning to expand Medicare to include vision, hearing and dental, insure tax subsidies and incentives for small and medium sized farms and invest in green projects using renewable resources as a few examples.
Derrick Van Orden is running through the Republican Party. According to his website, Van Orden is campaigning to get children back in school after the coronavirus pandemic, lower the cost of healthcare, promote the accessibility of healthcare for veterans and promote law enforcement to point some main issues out.
Representative to the Assembly District 93
Depending on which part of Eau Claire a voter resides, the ballot will either include a representative to the assembly voting for either district 91 or 93. Both options are listed below, but voters can check who is on their ballot online at My Vote Wisconsin.
Christian Phelps is running through the Democratic Party. According to his website, Phelps is campaigning to give more funding to public schools, give people the right to choose for reproductive healthcare after Roe vs. Wade, promote Medicare expansion, fund mental health care and give more funding to the DNR, to highlight a few.
James Rolbiecki is running through the Republican Party. According to his website, Rolbiecki is campaigning to cut taxes for the middle class, families and retirees, give more transparency and choice for parents when it comes to education, invest in highways infrastructure and expand broadband access to shed light on some issues.
Representative to the Assembly District 93
Jodi Emerson is running through the Democratic Party. According to her website, Emerson is campaigning to make housing and child care more affordable, get tax cuts for small businesses, get PFAS chemicals out of the water and funding public universities to highlight some main issues she hopes to address.
Michele Magadance Skinner is running through the Republican Party. According to her website, Skinner is campaigning to reduce taxes on middle class families, retirees and families with children, support law enforcement, defend the southern border and reduce the cost of health care to point out a few of her priorities.
Eau Claire County Positions
The Eau Claire County District Attorney, County Clerk, County Treasurer and Register of Deeds are all up for election on the ballot. Each of these positions only has one candidate running on the ballot but voters can still write-in other candidates they feel could best fulfill the position.
State of Wisconsin Eligibility to Vote Referendum
This referendum is voting on a change to the wording in the Wisconsin State Constitution regarding suffrage. This change would move the wording from “every United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district in this state is a qualified elector of that district” as it is currently written to “only a United States citizen age 18 or older who resides in an election district may vote.”
Voting yes would allow this change and update the state constitution. Voting no would leave the wording as it was originally written.
Eau Claire School District Exceeds Revenue Limit Referendum
This referendum is voting on whether the Eau Claire Area School District would be allowed to receive more funding this school year and the next three school years to fund operation costs. This would increase the amount taxpayers have to contribute to the school district.
Voting yes would authorize the revenue limit increase for the schools. Voting no would keep the revenue limit where it is at.
Check out The Spectator article on student voting to double check the process for on-campus voting. Check out My Vote WI for general voting information like finding where to vote and checking voter registration.
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