Cherry County NE Democrats

04/24/2026

04/22/2026

Watch at 5:15 tonight central time

Join NDP Chair Jane Fleming Kleeb and Executive Director Precious McKesson tonight at 5:15 PM as they discuss the State Convention, the upcoming Primary Election, and voting in general.

Bring your questions during this Facebook Live session. Let's dispel with the misinformation and get it straight from NDP leadership. Join us at 5:15 PM Central tonight!

04/22/2026

04/22/2026

The deadline to turn in your vote-by-mail ballot will be Primary Election Day, May 12th, at 8PM. While you do have the option to mail them back in, it is recommended to drop them off at a secure, 24-hour dropbox or your local election commission office during normal business hours.

Please keep in mind that you will not be able to drop off your vote-by-mail ballot at your polling place on Primary Election Day.

To locate a secure dropbox location, candidate information, voter guides, key dates, and access other valuable voter information, visit our Voting Center at: https://nebraskademocrats.org/2026-voting-center/

04/18/2026

Check out your county voting guide. It helps!

We are in our second week of vote-by-mail ballots being mailed out to voters across Nebraska.

As a reminder, the Nebraska Democratic Party has created Primary Election voter guides to help elected Democrats and independents from now until Primary Election Day on May 12th. Except for Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, and Cass Counties, most voter guides will list candidates in legislative races and up. With in-person voting happening now, take your voter guide with you. You can download them at the new Voter Guide section of our website. All 93 counties are available!

Click on the link for your county and then right-click on the guide (or long-press) to download/print: https://nebraskademocrats.org/2026voterguides/

The NDP will continue to send out and publish the voter guide with all candidates up and down the ballot before the General Election in November. If you have questions, send them to [email protected]. Happy voting!

04/17/2026

I went to cast my vote early in person as I have done for the last few election cycles. That’s what works best for me!

My folks like to try to be the first in line to vote at the Nehawka Community Building at 8am on Election Day. That’s how they prefer to vote!

I have several friends who like to get their ballots in the mail so that they can spend their time researching the candidates so that they can vote for whoever best represents them.

Whatever your preferred vote method, they are ALL secure and they ALL count!

If you are home-bound for any reason, please don’t let the current rhetoric around mail-in voting dissuade you from exercising your constitutional right to VOTE!

The skepticism around early and mail-in voting is dangerous and unfounded.

First of all, it puts all absentee ballots into question, including those of our dedicated military service members. And those ballots belonging to citizens who simply cannot make it to the polls on Election Day for any number of reasons.

Secondly, it calls into question the integrity of the HUNDREDS of Nebraskans who work in County Election Offices across the state.

Claiming “election fraud” means that you’re telling these folks that they are terrible at their jobs. They’re not. My county election officials are consummate professionals who take a lot of pride in their work.

To double down and say that in person voting is suspicious and that hand counts are necessary…be serious.

Poll workers are some of the best people I’ve ever met, and they take their jobs VERY SERIOUSLY.

Maybe you don’t know your county election officials, but you definitely know some poll workers.

Nebraska has never had voter fraud. Now that we have mandatory voter ID? We still won’t have voter fraud. Period.

I am so grateful for the hard work of Nebraska’s many election officials and poll workers. Thank you for keeping democracy alive and well!

04/16/2026

If you are non-partisan also known as independent please read.

A message to independent (nonpartisan) voters: if you still plan to request a vote-by-mail ballot, plan to vote early in-person, or plan to vote on Primary Election Day on May 12th, you must request a Democratic Primary Election ballot in order to vote for all non-partisan races AND all Democratic (partisan) candidates.

Currently, all independent voters can vote only in non-partisan races such as the Nebraska Legislature, State Board of Education, Board of Regents, school boards, natural resource districts, public power districts, community colleges, Learning Community Council (Douglas and Sarpy County), and Metropolitan Utilities District (Douglas County).

By requesting a Democratic Primary Election ballot, you can vote in the races above AND vote for all Democratic candidates running for the US Senate, House of Representatives, statewide (governor, attorney general, and secretary of state), and county races (sheriff, county attorney, treasurer, public defender, and others).

The Nebraska Democratic Party will always welcome independent voters to vote for Democrats at the federal, state, and county levels (referred to as an open primary). By contrast, the Nebraska Republican Party only allows independents to vote for federal candidates (no state or county candidates).

Request your Democratic Primary Election ballot when requesting your vote-by-mail ballot, voting early in-person, or if you plan to vote on Primary Election Day on May 12th. Feel free to share far and wide to all our independent voters in our state.

For more info: https://sos.nebraska.gov/elections/how-nonpartisan-voting-works-nebraska-primary-elections

04/16/2026

📣 Nonpartisan voters can request a Democratic ballot!

Whether you are voting by mail or in-person, let your voice be heard in critical races!

Learn more at https://www.votedouglascounty-ne.gov/nonpartisan_voting.aspx.

04/11/2026

By this time in two weeks, the Nebraska Democratic Party State Convention will have begun in beautiful Norfolk, Nebraska.

Every two years, county parties from across Nebraska will send their delegates to the state convention to vote on party business and leadership. New state central committee members will be elected at the state convention, helping move the state party forward.

In the spirit of honoring the community of Norfolk, we will have a Johnny Carson theme as a way of paying homage to the city's most famous son. Before there was Jimmy Fallon and before there was Jay Leno, there was the King of Late Night Television, Johnny Carson, who entertained the nation with the Tonight Show for 30 years, ending in 1992.

We thank all returning and new delegates who will join us in two weeks as we work together in shaping the Nebraska Democratic Party's future and work towards electing Democratic and independent candidates up and down the ballot during these midterm elections and beyond.

04/11/2026

Our plan is simple to defeat Pete Ricketts. It all starts with the Primary Election.

As you fill out your vote-by-mail ballot over the weekend or if you plan to vote early in-person at election commission offices across Nebraska beginning on Monday (yes, Monday), vote for Cindy Burbank as the true Democrat in the Primary.

Do not vote for the fake Democrat (William Forbes) listed on the ballot. Also, do not WRITE IN Dan Osborn's name on the Primary Election ballot. You will only be able to vote for Dan in the General Election as we get closer to November. We must all rally behind Cindy Burbank to defeat Forbes in the Primary. We can then focus on Ricketts in the General Election.

Please share this far and wide! If we are to defeat Pete Ricketts, we must vote for Cindy Burbank on or before May 12th.