This is your guide to everything you need to know about next week’s Pennsylvania primary. Even if you’ve voted many times before, there are some things you may not be aware of, so here goes.

Primary Day is next Tuesday, 26 April. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you need to find your polling location, click here. If you don’t know if you are registered, click here. While PA has closed primaries, there is a ballot initiative so even if you are not a registered Democrat or Republican, you can still vote.

Ballots and delegate selection processes after the jump.

First, the ballot questions. They appear on all ballots. If you are an Independent, Green, unaligned or anything other than a Democrat or a Republican, the only thing on your ballot will be the initiatives. They also appear on the party ballots. The questions are:

AMENDING THE MANDATORY JUDICIAL RETIREMENT AGE “Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to require that justices of the Supreme Court, judges and justices of the peace (known as magisterial district judges) be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 75 years, instead of the current requirement that they be retired on the last day of the calendar year in which they attain the age of 70?”

ABOLITION OF THE PHILADELPHIA TRAFFIC COURT “Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to abolish the Philadelphia Traffic Court?”

Next, the races. There are contested races up and down the Democratic ballot, and a few on the Republican side. On the GOP side, they’re all minor races, and face it, I just don’t care. On the Democratic side, there are a lot of important choices. The names are listed in the order in which they will appear on your ballot. You’ll notice that there’s no real order, and that’s because the order for all races is chosen by lottery. I am not making this up.

US Senator: Joseph Vodvarka, John Fetterman, Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty.  You can see my article on this race here.

Attorney General: John Morganelli, Josh Shapiro, Stephen Zappala. The state’s current AG is under indictment, lost her law license, and decided against running again. If you live in the 2nd CD, you’d find this odd, since the incumbent Congressman is running in a contested race, and he’s under indictment.

There are multiple contested Congressional races. Drop a note in the comments if you have a question about a specific race.

You’ll certainly want to pick a presidential candidate, but please don’t stop there, you need to elect delegates also.  We have THREE presidential choices on the Democratic side (yes really, Rocky De La Fuente made the ballot) but Rocky has no delegate slates that I know of. There are six on the Republican side. Yes, if you are a Republican reading DEMOCRATIC Convention Watch (and we don’t judge) you have not missed your opportunity to vote for Ben Carson. Delegate selection is very different on the two sides.

On the Democratic side, because this is how we do things here, you will see regular delegates and alternates listed with the candidate to whom each delegate is pledged. Mark your selections with confidence. Know, however, that these are only SOME of the delegates we’ll be sending to Philadelphia in July.  If you would like to read the whole delegate selection process, it’s here. Basically, there will be 127 CD level delegates and 12 alternates, selected by voters. They are allocated proportionally provided a candidate earns more than 15% of the vote, and less than 63% of the vote. Less than 15% and the candidate wins no delegates, more than 63% and he/she gets all of them. There are also On page 5 of the plan, you can see the CD allocation, which has changed since 2012. There are 21 pledged PLEO delegates, also listed by title in the plan. There are also 42 at-large delegates with 4 alternates. These folks are recommended by the campaigns, and allocated by the state party based on the statewide vote with the 15% threshold and are chosen at a public meeting in June. If you compare the number of delegates to those in 2008, there are more because Pennsylvania was accorded “bonus” delegates for holding the primary later, and simultaneously with other nearby states.

On the GOP side, most delegates are unbound. 54 are mostly elected at the CD level (3 from each of the 18 CDs) plus 10 at-large (bound first ballot), 4 bonus (bound first ballot), and 3 RNC delegates (unbound). The fun part is that the delegates are listed with no information about which candidate he/she supports. Not to mention the fact that they can change their minds even if they signed pledges for the candidates. Cruz has been working his slate here for months. There is a website for Trump delegates. That campaign is learning after winning popular votes and crashing and burning on the delegate selection process. Trump is recommending a total of 48 delegates for the 54 slots, so he may not be able to fill the slate even if he sweeps the state. Of those, 18 signed a pledged to Trump,  4 promised to support the district winner,  4 will support the district winner at first and then support Trump, 2 said they are uncommitted, 4 were “recommended” simply for because the district only has 3 candidates on the ballot and 16 are unknown per that website.

Confused? You might want to take a look at your sample ballot. To get yours, go to your county’s web site, find the voter services link, and they’ll have the sample ballots at the precinct level. If you can’t find your sample ballot, leave a note in the comments and I’ll dig it out for you.

REMEMBER TO VOTE — turnout is expected to be “high” for a primary which means maybe 25% — if so, your vote basically counts 4 times over.