Early voting for Louisiana’s Oct. 22 gubernatorial election primary is slated to begin Saturday and continue through Oct. 15.
Formerly known as “absentee voting,” early voting will allow participants to vote not only for public office holders but policy issues as well.
There will be three locations in Baton Rouge for early voting, including:
• 222 St. Louis St., Room 201
• 10500 Coursey Blvd., Room 203
• 3851 Essen Lane
Each location will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day of early voting. Voters must provide photo identification.
In public offices, the ballot will include candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state, among other positions.
In the gubernatorial election, 10 candidates will be in the running, including:
• David Blanchard, I-Brusly
• Leonard Bollingham, I-Baton Rouge
• Ron Ceasar, I-Opelousas
• Cary Deaton, D-Metairie
• Tara Hollis, D-Haynesville
• Bobby Jindal, R-Baton Rouge (incumbent)
• Robert Lang Jr., I-Natchitoches
• Scott Lewis, Libertarian-Baton Rouge
• Androniki Papazoglakis,D-Baton Rouge
• Trey Roberts, D-Gretna
Voters can also vote on five constitutional amendments regarding a number of topics, such as an allocation of annual cigarette tax revenues to TOPS funding and making a soon-to-expire 4 cent cigarette tax permanent, among others.
The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has posted general summaries of each constitutional amendment on its website, www.la-par.org.
Though the voter registration deadline for early primary voting was Sept. 21, the deadline to register to vote in the general election will be Oct. 19.
 
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Contact Clayton Crockett at [email protected]