New York city councilmember Alan Gerson is running for re-election in the September 2009 Democratic primary. He is currently off the ballot. He needed 900 valid signatures and he submitted 7,000. But some of the petitions, containing about 1,000 signatures, were bound into a book that showed the candidate’s address as 1505 LaGuardia Place instead of 505 LaGuardia Place. The Board of Elections asked him to correct the error, but when the error was fixed, no new cover sheet with the correct address was submitted, so now all the signatures are no good. Gerson will be in court next week. See this news story. Thanks to Kimberly Wilder for the news.
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Edited By Richard Winger
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Joyce McCloy: “ditto!”
Talking ’bout the cover sheet and the unanswered question: “funny or sad ?????”
———– Donald Raymond Lake
Safe bet he will be put back on the ballot. The Board of Elections has to follow the letter of the law or someone claims they favor one candidate over another. A judge has a lot more leeway to waive technicalities if there is substantial compliance and no hint of fraud.
Well, if no fraud was committed I’d say that Gerson made a good faith effort. So I guess its pretty silly to kick him off the ballot.
Walter: ‘silly’ is the middle name for Politics!
‘Politics” …….. many blood sucking insects!