By Jeff Grant | Daily News-Sun
In virtually all the Northwest Valley, the notion of another election is still months away. Peoria voters don’t face their next regularly scheduled balloting until August 2016, but in the city’s sprawling northernmost district – the Mesquite District – voters can weigh in as early as today in their next City Council contest.
A special election, necessitated by a series of ballot errors last summer, gets under way in the largely undeveloped district with the mailing of early ballots by the City Clerk’s Office.
The district’s 11,882 registered voters signed up for early balloting can begin marking their choices between top primary vote-getter Bridget Binsbacher and Council appointee Ben Toma, and have until March 10 to return those ballots.
Ballots were being mailed out Thursday morning, said Natalie Gilstrap, a specialist with the City Clerk’s Office.
