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Complete breakdown of City Council ballot
Posted: 03.03.2013 at 9:36 PM
Updated: 03.04.2013 at 9:00 AM
Sam Baranowski

Sam is a general assignment reporter for FOX21 News.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Twenty-four candidates are competing for six seats on Colorado Springs' City Council.

The last day to register to vote in the election is Monday, March 4.

The mail-ballot municipal election is April 2, and ballots will be mailed to voters between March 8 and 18.

This election is the first to choose City Council members from six districts instead of four.

Some districts have five candidates meaning someone could win there with as little as 21 percent of the vote.

Here's a brief rundown of the ballot, with links to the candidate's pages for more information, as well as links to new district maps for the upcoming year.

Vying for a chance to represent the city's northwest sector, District 1:

Julie Naye, conservative activist and former small business owner

Tim Leigh, current at-large councilman

Linda Mojer, Women's Chamber of Commerce Executive Director

Don Knight, an Air Force and defense industry retiree

and Joe Barrera, an education consultant.

Competing for District 2:

Incumbent Angela Dougan  

Lt. Joel Miller  of the Air National Guard

and Bill Murray Army veteran and former firefighter.

Several notable names running for District 3 representing the city's southwest and downtown...

Tom Gallagher, former City Council member and mayoral candidate

Jim Bensberg , a former El Paso County Commissioner

Keith King , a former state legislator

Brandy Williams, current at-large councilwoman

and Bob Kinsey an anti-fracking advocate.

Your options for District 4 which covers the city's southeast...

Gary Flakes, a consultant who served 12 years in prison in the deaths of two springs teens

Deborah Hendrix, Harrison School District 2 School Board Chair

Dennis R. Moore, former Air Force analyst

and Helen Collins, former member of Douglas Bruce's so-called "Reform Team".

Running for the new District 5 falling between I-25 and Powers and from Platte up to about Austin Bluffs...

Bernie Herpin , current district 4 councilman

Roger McCarville, a property tax opponent

Jill Gaebler, nonprofit administrator

and Al Loma, Board of Education Director in District 11

Finally in the new eastern District 6:

David H. Moore, U.S. Postal Service supervisor turned pastor

Adres G. Pico, defense industry manager

and Ed Bircham, a local business owner, also a member of douglas bruce's reform team.

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