{"id":84622,"date":"2017-09-17T05:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84622"},"modified":"2017-09-16T23:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T03:21:46","slug":"ball-secures-independent-ballot-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84622","title":{"rendered":"Ball secures independent ballot line"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83967\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=83967\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83967\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?resize=189%2C275\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?w=189&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?resize=103%2C150&amp;ssl=1 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Ball, Acting Sheriff and Undersheriff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The John Ball for Madison County Sheriff campaign today announced that Acting Sheriff\/Undersheriff John Ball has secured a third party independent line on this year\u2019s ballot named the People\u2019s Pick.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers from the campaign obtained over one thousand signatures throughout Madison County to\u00a0get the People\u2019s Pick line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of time and hard work went into getting those\u00a0signatures, but it was important to get the message out that the Sheriff\u2019s office is not run by politics \u2013 and that their voice is important,\u201d Ball said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that per state Election Law we are required to split a ballot line, in this case the Democratic and People\u2019s Pick line, because we have a total of three lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you will\u00a0find the People\u2019s Pick independent line joined with the Democratic line on Row A on the ballot. We are telling our independent supporters to look for the Sheriff\u2019s badge on the Left and follow the line until\u00a0you see John Ball under People\u2019s Pick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball\u2019s name will also appear on the Women\u2019s Equality Party line on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot thank those people enough that circulated the independent petitions,&#8221; Ball said. &#8220;It\u2019s important to keep partisan politics out of the Sheriff\u2019s Office and public safety as a whole, and it seems that a lot of Madison County residents feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the general election is set for Nov. 7, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Keep what works! We hope to see\u00a0you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Ball for Madison County Sheriff campaign today announced that Acting Sheriff\/Undersheriff John Ball has secured a third party independent line on this year\u2019s ballot named the People\u2019s Pick. Volunteers from the campaign obtained over one thousand signatures throughout Madison County to\u00a0get the People\u2019s Pick line. \u201cA lot of time and hard work went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-m0S","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?fit=189%2C275&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}