Collin County voter guide: who and what is on the Nov. 3 ballot, including McKinney ISD's bond

Collin County's ballot for Tuesday, Nov. 3, combines the state's general election with bond votes for the county and Collin College, two McKinney ISD measures, a Plano arena question and a scattering of city and school board races. The rundown below follows the county elections department's all-race sample ballot.

Individual ballots are shorter: each voter sees only the contests for the districts where they live, and the county offers an address lookup on its sample ballots page.

Party letters are as the ballot shows them: R for Republican, D for Democrat, L for Libertarian, G for Green. A race with one name has a single candidate.

Key dates

Registration closes Monday, Oct. 5, according to the Texas secretary of state. In-person early voting is scheduled Oct. 19-30. Collin County's Election Day hours are 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Early voting sites and hours are posted on the county's polling locations page at collincountytx.gov/elections.

Congress

• U.S. Senate: Ken Paxton (R), James Talarico (D), Ted Brown (L)
• 3rd Congressional District: Keith Self (R), Evan Hunt (D)
• 4th Congressional District: Pat Fallon (R), Jason Pearce (D)
• 32nd Congressional District: Jace Yarbrough (R), Dan Barrios (D)

State executive offices

• Governor: Abbott (R), Hinojosa (D), Dixon (L)
• Lieutenant governor: Patrick (R), Goodwin (D), Cristo (L), McCormick (G)
• Attorney general: Middleton (R), Johnson (D), Oxford (L)
• Comptroller: Huffines (R), Eckhardt (D), Echavarria-Garza (L), Faizi (G)
• General Land Office: Buckingham (R), Flores (D), Snider (L)
• Agriculture: Sheets (R), Tucker (D), Kelly (L)
• Railroad Commission: French (R), Rosenthal (D), Dibianca (L)

Courts

Statewide appellate seats on the ballot are the Texas Supreme Court's chief justice and Places 2 (unexpired term), 7 and 8; Court of Criminal Appeals Places 3, 4 and 9; and the 15th Court of Appeals chief justice and Places 2 and 3. Each has a Republican and a Democrat, and the Place 3 criminal appeals race also has a Libertarian, Mark Ash.

Regional appeals court: 5th Court of Appeals Place 3, Matthew Kolodoski (R) vs. Amanda Reichek (D); Place 6, Ben Smith (R) vs. Monica Purdy (D); Place 8, Ashley Wysocki (R) vs. Andrea D. Plumlee (D).

District judges, all Republicans without an opponent: Jennifer Edgeworth (219th), Piper McCraw (296th), Tom Nowak (366th), Cyndi McCrann Wheless (417th), Jill Willis (429th), Bryan Gantt (471st) and Kathryn Pruitt (494th).

Legislature

• Senate District 2: Bob Hall (R), Keenen Colbert (D)
• House District 33: Katrina Pierson (R), Orlando Lopez (D)
• House District 61: Keresa Richardson (R), Brittany Black (D), Anissa Chilmeran (G)
• House District 66: Matt Shaheen (R), Sandeep Srivastava (D)
• House District 67: Jeff Leach (R), Jordan Wheatley (D)
• House District 70: George Flint (R), Mihaela Elizabeth Plesa (D)
• House District 89: Candy Noble (R), Angie Carraway (D)

County offices

• County judge: Chris Hill (R), John R. "Buster" Brown (D)
• County clerk: Stacey Kemp (R), John Russell (D)
• Commissioner, Precinct 4: Shelby Williams (R), Julie Holmer (D)
• Justice of the peace: Precinct 2, Ellen Kinnebrew (R) and Darsell E. Johnson (D); Precinct 3, Mike Missildine (R) and Irvin Lynn Barrett (D); Precinct 4, Stephen Kallas (R) and Eli Worthy (D)

Running unopposed are Criminal District Attorney Greg Willis (R); county court at law judges Corinne Mason, Barnett Walker, Lance S. Baxter, David Rippel, Randy Johnson, Jay A. Bender and David Waddill (Courts 1 through 7, all R); Probate Judge Sarah R. Duff (R); District Clerk Mike Gould (R); Commissioner Michael Slaughter (R, Precinct 2); and Justice of the Peace Paul M. Raleeh (R, Precinct 1).

For the Collin Central Appraisal District board, Randal Shinn (Place 1) and Joe Corcoran (Place 3) are listed alone, and Michael G. Smith and Andrew Cook are listed for Place 2.

County and college bonds

The county is asking for four bond propositions: A, $296.5 million for courts, adult detention and medical and mental health detention facilities; B, $475 million for non-tolled roads and bridges; C, $6 million for parks and open space; and D, $40 million for a new elections and storage building. Collin College's single proposition would authorize $600 million for workforce, career and technical, and academic facilities.

Both were covered in earlier reporting.

McKinney ISD

McKinney ISD voters face five items. Proposition A would ratify a tax rate of $1.0664 per $100 of valuation, which the ballot says would raise maintenance and operations revenue 4.4222%, or $9,142,763, over last year.

The bond measures are B, $430.95 million for school facilities, sites, buses and vehicles; C, $62 million for instructional technology; D, $4.5 million to renovate the McKinney High School training pool; and E, $2.55 million for existing stadium facilities.

City and school items

• Plano Proposition A: a multipurpose arena in the Shops at Willow Bend area, financed by one or more taxes on car rentals, event parking and admissions, major league team members who play there, and hotel rooms.
• Anna Proposition A: $60 million in street bonds.
• Dallas Proposition A: public safety bonds totaling $443 million.
• Princeton City Council: Place 6, Sumbel "Susan" Zeb and Kenneth Seligman; Place 7, DeShawyna Walker.
• Princeton ISD trustees: four candidates for two at-large seats.
• Wylie: five bond propositions, A through E, totaling $90.5 million for streets, parks, public safety, public works and an animal shelter, plus Wylie ISD trustee races.
• Garland: a tax rate election.
• Bland ISD: a tax rate ratification.
• Josephine, Lavon, Lowry Crossing and Weston: council or alderman races; Lavon also votes on creating a municipal development district.

Blue Meadow MUD No. 2, Blue Meadow MUD No. 4 and The Preserve MUD have confirmation, director, bond and tax propositions for residents of those districts.

Sources

collincountytx.gov

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