ABSENTEES CAN BE CAST ON SATURDAY

JACKSON - Offices of the Cape Girardeau County clerk in both Cape Girardeau and Jackson will be open from 9 a.m. until noon Saturday for anyone needing to vote absentee for Tuesday's election.

Cape Girardeau city voters will vote on gas and electric franchise, and purchase of the water plant. All county voters will be asked to approve an enhanced 911 system; statewide, Proposition B appears on the ballot.

The offices are located in the Common Pleas Courthouse Annex in Cape and on the top floor of the county's administrative building im Jackson.

Absentees can also be voted in person from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. through Friday of this week, and from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday.

Absentees are available for people who will be out of town on Tuesday or for some reason will be unable to make it to the polls.

Betty Hahs, deputy county clerk, said Monday that about 80 absentees had been voted, which she noted, "is fairly normal for this type of an election."

She added that about 70 absentee ballot applications had been taken. Anyone voting absentee by mail, must have them returned to the clerk's office by Tuesday.

Anyone needing more information on absentees can contact Hahs at 243-3547 or Lois Boston, voter registration clerk in Cape Girardeau, at 335-9060.