Some people have already received their ballots in the mail; others will receive them shortly. School board and budget elections are being conducted entirely by mail-in voting this year, and the final list of candidates for each of the Tri-Lakes districts has been set for the June 9 election.

The Enterprise learned the names of the candidates Wednesday and plans to profile each one in the upcoming days, to inform voters.

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Saranac Lake

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Saranac Lake has the Tri-Lakes’ only contested school board race, with four candidates for two board seats. The seats are currently held by Jeff Branch and Mike McCreadie. Branch is running for reelection, but McCreadie is not. Michael Beccaria, Joseph Henderson and Zachary Randolph are also running.

Ballots have already been mailed out. Many district residents have received them.

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Tupper Lake

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In Tupper Lake there are three candidates running for three board seats. The seats currently held by Wayne Davison, Shaleen Price and Vice President Jason Rolley are up for a vote. Price resigned last week, with plans to move out of town, but Rolley and Davison are running for reelection. Dawn Hughes, who sat on the board for seven years before retiring, is running.

Price came onto the board in 2014, when Hughes left.

District Clerk Shauni Shumway said the mail-in ballots will be sent out today.

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Lake Placid

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In Lake Placid there are three board seats on the ballot, currently held by Jeffrey Brownell, Joan Hallett-Valentine and Vice President Daniel Marvin. All are running for reelection, and no one else is running.

District Superintendent Roger Catania said the ballots were mailed out on Friday.

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Voting

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When voters receive their mail-in ballots they can vote for the school board candidates they want and also vote on the district’s proposed budget for the upcoming year. This mail voting system was due to an executive order made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo May 1, and it puts 100% of the financial burden of mail voting on the districts.

Since then districts have scrambled to print, package and mail these ballots out to voters in their school districts.