Voting for November 2024 General Election is a few weeks away. So it is no surprise that political yard signs are already appearing.  A word of caution to campaigners, though: try to be strategic about the placement of your yard signs. As a case in point, consider the signs that recently went up on El Camino about two blocks east of Fulton. Those signs,  promoting someone running for a distant school board trustee area, are placed within a completely different school board than the one for which the candidate is running. The people who live near these signs, as well as the thousands of motorists who might drive by them every day, cannot vote for or against the candidate whose campaign placed the signs.

Might this be a problem? The candidate is running for the SACRAMENTO City Unified School District. The signs are located in the SAN JUAN school district. The Post Office has assigned zip code "95825 Sacramento" (which most people interpret to mean the CITY of Sacramento) to the the property where the signs are, even though the signs are located in unincorporated ARDEN ARCADE in Sacramento COUNTY. As we have pointed out before, it can be confusing when the Post Office and the media mislead people into thinking they or their businesses are in the City of Sacramento when they are instead located in Sacramento County's unincorporated UnCity. And, as we have mentioned on more than one occasion, the County compounds the confusion when the Voters Guide buries Arden Arcade's voting sites and ballot-drop stations within the listings for the City of Sacramento.

Voters in our community need to know who their government representatives are and where they can cast their ballots. If the Voter Guide for the upcoming November election continues to ignore Arden Arcade, we will publish a page about it. We have also tried to provide information about local governments that directly serve our community in the "Our Governments" section of our website. The information available there is more accurate than what yard signs might lead you to believe. If our readers have questions about this, please drop us a line.