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2024 COSA Indian River County School Board Candidate Survey Results

2 out of 5 seats on the Indian River County School Board are up for election.

School Board Members are elected during the PRIMARY!

Many voters don't know that, while Florida is a "closed primary state" in regards to partisan races like choosing your party's presidential candidate, Congressional House rep, State Senator, etc., it is also the ONLY election where you can participate in non-partisan races for electing/re-electing local judges, sheriffs, school boards, etc.

So, you CAN vote in the primary, your registration determines which ballot you recieve.

Of course, if you aren't registered to a particular party, there's still time! You have until July 22, 2024 to update your voter registration and help select who will represent your preferred party on the November ballot.

We surveyed your Indian River County School Board Candidates

We asked the candidates in your Indian River County School Board race a few questions to clarify how their values align with your own. You can scroll down to see the results.

Important dates to know for the Primary Election

  • Deadline to send vote-by-mail ballots to UOCAVA voters: July 6, 2024
  • Deadline to send vote-by-mail ballots to domestic voters: July 11 – 18, 2024
  • Deadline to register to vote or change party affiliation: July 22, 2024
  • Deadline to request that ballot be mailed: August 8, 2024
  • Early voting period (mandatory period): August 10 – 17, 2024
  • Election Day: August 20, 2024

    Find your polling location here.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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