[Music] voting is underway in a special election for henpen County Commissioner for district 6 the special election will fill a vacancy on the henpen County Board of Commissioners following a resignation of the district six seat last fall all six of the candidates are from Idina the large field means there will be a special primary election on April 30th to narrow it down to two candidates in the nonpartisan election candidates on the ballots are State Rep Heather Edon political consultant Patrick Gage Normandale Community College director of procurement Janet koule nonprofit leader Daniel morett businesswoman Marissa Simonetti and Hopkins school board member Jan West Morland the special election for the seat will be May 14th with early voting May 6th through 13th so the special election this time around it's the same as any other elections except that we have a compressed timeline um the April 30th um election for example there are only 13 days of absentee voting for the uh May 14th general election there are only six days of voting one thing that I would encourage voters to do is to drop off their ballot for those who are voting by mail so that there isn't a delay with their ballot arriving to the county late um and they can certainly drop it off here at City Hall the seven seat County Board oversees an annual budget of $2.7 billion hennipen county has nearly 10,000 employees and is the second largest government in Minnesota after the state the county is Minnesota's largest