Don’t forget the ballot question
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- October
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  Besides casting ballots for president, vice president, Congress, state Legislature and, in many cases, state Supreme Court justice, voters will be asked a ballot question on Tuesday.
  If approved, the constitutional amendment would provide disabled veterans who served during wartime with 10 extra points on original civil service exams, even if they’re not collecting disability benefits. Current law allows preference to be given only if a veteran is receiving disability payments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
  About 745,000 of almost 1.1 million veterans living in New York in September 2006 had served during wartime.
  Voters often miss ballot questions, which typically are placed above or below the lists of candidates.Â
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
