JMC Analytics pollster John Couvillon says early voting results are leaning Republican in Louisiana. Nationally he expects Republicans to add 30 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Couvillon expects the GOP to add two or three seats in the Senate.
Louisiana voters will be rewarded with the traditional “I Voted” sticker and Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says this year’s edition is a colorful image of the state capitol. He says there’s such a demand for the stickers to show you’ve performed your civic duty they were also distributed during early voting
Polls close at 8 PM
State Police are investigating the deputy-involved Sunday afternoon shooting in Rapides Parish. The incident claimed the life of 45-year-old Derrick Kittling of Alexandria who is the brother of LSP Lt Colonel Kenny Van Buren. Master Trooper Casey Wallace says during a traffic stop a physical altercation happened and Kittling gained control of the deputy’s taser.
The investigation is ongoing.
Voting concludes today on the UNO campus as the university is asking students if they would want to raise student fees in order to start a football program, two new women’s sports, golf and soccer, a marching band and add extra activities. UNO athletics director Tim Duncan says football could bring more students to the school…
The new fee would be 300 hundred dollars for part-time and 400 dollars for full-time students per semester.