The August primary election will be Tuesday, August 8, and the general election will be Tuesday, November 7, and candidates for office must have their petitions on file at the county clerk's office by Tuesday, May 16, at 4 p.m., said Mary Kay Tamlyn, Mackinac County clerk. This deadline includes precinct delegate candidates, though not judicial candidates, whose petitions were due in March and early May and are filed at the state level.

Candidates for a city office file with the city clerk, while candidates for township office file with the township clerk.

Republican and Democratic candidates seeking state, county, and township partisan offices must file a partisan nominating petition and an affidavit of identity by the May 16 deadline. Those seeking the office of state representative or a county office may file a $100 filing fee in lieu of a petition.

Candidates without party affiliation who seek a partisan office must file a qualifying petition for the November general election and an affidavit of identity by 4 p.m. Thursday, July 20.

Write-in candidates must file a Declaration of Intent form for the November general election by 4 p.m. Friday, November 3.

Candidates for the state House of Representatives or the U.S. House of Representatives, whose district is wholly contained in one county, file with the county clerk. Those whose districts fall in more than one county file at the Bureau of Elections in Lansing

The filing deadline for write-in candidates for the primary is Friday, August 4, and Wednesday, November 3, for the general election.

Registered voters in Mackinac County will cast their votes for governor, secretary of state, attorney general, U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman for District One, State Senator for District 37, and State Congressman for District 107.

On the local level, voters will consider five county commission seats that hold a two-year term; one six-year term road commission seat; and one six-year term for 6th District Probate Court. St. Ignace voters will cast ballots to fill one St. Ignace City Council seat to complete the balance of the term ending in 2007. A Brevort trustee seat will be filled for the balance of the term ending in 2007.

Petitions for local questions to be on the August primary ballot are due by Tuesday, May 16, and those for the November general election ballot must be filed by Tuesday, August 15.

Mrs. Tamlyn said there is a possible county tax allocation millage renewel that will be on the primary ballot and townships could have ballot millages also, though at this time none have been filed.