Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman reports, beginning in 2019, School Board Elections and City Elections will be held on the same day: November 5, 2019. For the majority of voters, the voting site will be the site used for the “General Election”.

There will be separate ballot styles for the city and rural voters since only city voters cast a ballot for city offices. School Board Elections will take place on November 5, 2019. Nomination papers for offices to be filled in 2019 can be filed (with the school board secretary) August 26, 2019 through September 19, 2019. All offices are four year terms. Nomination papers for elected school office positions must be filed
with the secretary of the respective school board.

Nomination papers for local school boards may be filed with the respective
school board secretary from August 26, 2019 thru September 19, 2019.

Becoming a candidate for elective school office:
Nominations – Nomination petitions for a school board office must be filed with the respective board secretary not more than 71 nor less than 47 days prior to the regular election. (In 2019, the first day to file papers is August 26. The last day to file papers is September 19.)

The process for filing nomination petitions is as follows:

• Obtain an original nomination petition and candidate’s guide from the board secretary, county auditor or online from the Iowa Secretary of State ( www.sos.iowa.gov ).
• Obtain the nomination signatures of the required number of eligible electors of the respective school district or local director district, as the case may be. The candidate’s guide lists how the number of signatures required is calculated. The number of signatures required depends upon the number of registered voters in the respective director district on May 1, 2019.
• A person may sign nomination petitions for more than one candidate for the same office.
• Attach a notarized affidavit acknowledging the candidate’s eligibility.
• File the petition with the respective school board secretary prior to 5 p.m. on September 19, 2019.

Each candidate who successfully files a completed nomination petition is assured a place on the ballot. In Cass County, Iowa the following offices will appear on the ballots for the respective school districts on November 5, 2019:
Atlantic Community School District
Three At Large local directors – Nominated and elected at large (Minimum of 50 signatures for nomination)
Incumbents (all from Atlantic): Alison A. Bruckner; Keith R. Swanson, & Jenny Williams.