7:30 LRN Newscast

Election day is here and Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin wants everyone to get out and vote. Polls are open until 8 pm. Ardoin says to find out what’s on the ballot, go to geaux-vote-dot-com…
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Ardoin says the geaux-vote app can also tell you your voting location.

Congressional elections highlight today’s ballot and Pollster Bernie Pinsonat says there’s a good chance Senator John Kennedy can win a second term without the need for a runoff…
Cut 1 (29) “…I’m Marsanne Golsby.”

In Louisiana’s races for U-S House, Democrat Troy Carter and Republicans Julia Letlow, Garret Graves and Steve Scalise are all expected to be re-elected easily. Fourth-district Congressman Mike Johnson has already been re-elected as no one qualified against him. Scalise is hoping the Republican Party gains control of the House and Senate so they can try to undo the economic damage done to Louisiana’s Oil and Gas Industry…
cut 9 (08) “…foreign countries”

Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says she has no plans to step down, despite a second child dying this year from an overdose death after a complaint was made to her agency…
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Governor Edwards has not commented about the latest case of a one-year-old boy dying from a fentanyl overdose death.