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Ballot drop boxes used in local elections sit in storage in Lawrence, March 21, 2022.

It is Election Day, as voters cast the final ballots for everything from president to county commissioners to a question about how Lawrence city government should be structured. Learn more about the candidates and issues in these stories, which have been removed from the Journal-World paywall and are free for all to view today.

BALLOT QUESTIONS

A proposal to change to the city’s form of government is on the November ballot; here’s what it could mean for Lawrence residents

VOTER GUIDE: Lawrence residents face ballot question to double sales tax rate for affordable housing, homeless services

COUNTY COMMISSION

VOTER GUIDE: An incumbent Douglas County commissioner and an independent candidate will run for District 2 seat

Current Democratic commission chair and Republican challenger run for Douglas County Commission District 3

Three candidates will be running for the newly established Douglas County Commission District 4

Three candidates for Douglas County Commission will run against each other in the newly established District 5

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Democrat Dakota Loomis and Republican Mike Warner vying for control of District Attorney’s Office in wake of incumbent’s ouster

LEGISLATURE

In race to represent Lawrence’s largest Senate district, the longtime Democratic incumbent faces a 1990s GOP leader