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A general election for the choice of elective officers provided for in this Charter shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November every four years commencing November 1981. Elections so held shall be known as regular Municipal elections. The other elections shall be held as may be required by law, or provided for in this Charter.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
Candidates for all offices to be voted for at any regular Municipal election under the provisions of this Charter shall be nominated at a non-partisan primary election to be held on the second Tuesday in September prior to the regular Municipal election. Candidates for all offices to be voted for at any other Municipal election under the provisions of this Charter shall be nominated at a non-partisan primary election to be held on the eighth Tuesday prior to the other Municipal elections.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
The name of any elector of the City shall be printed upon the ballot, when a petition in the form prescribed in this Charter is filed in the elector's behalf with the election authorities, and the elector has been an elector of the City for at least twelve (12) consecutive months immediately prior to the next regular Municipal election or the next election, as required by law or Charter, whichever occurs first. Such petition shall be signed by at least three thousand (3,000) electors of the City, for the nomination of a candidate for an office filled by election from the City at large, and by at least two hundred (200) electors of the ward if for the nomination for an office to be filled by election from a ward.
(Effective November 5, 2019)
The signatures to a nominating petition need not all be appended to one paper, but on each separate paper the circulator shall indicate the number of signatures contained on the petition, and shall sign a statement made under penalty of election falsification that the circulator witnesses the affixing of every signature, that all signers were to the best of the circulator’s knowledge and belief qualified to sign, and that every signature is to the best of the circulator’s knowledge and belief the signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Each signer of a petition shall sign his or her name in ink or indelible pencil, and shall place on the petition after his or her name the signer’s place of residence by street and number, or other description sufficient to identify the place, and give the date when the signer’s signature was made.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
All separate papers comprising a statement of candidacy and nominating petition shall be assembled and filed with the election authorities as one instrument no later than four p.m. on the ninetieth (90th ) day prior to the day of the primary election. Within ten (10) days after the filing of a nominating petition the election authorities shall notify the person named in the petition as a candidate whether the petition is found to be signed by the required number of qualified electors. If insufficient, the person named in the petition as candidate may amend the petition by filing additional petition papers within five (5) days after notification of insufficiency by the election authorities. Within five (5) days after the filing of the additional petition papers, the election authorities shall notify the person named in the petition as candidate whether the amended petition is found to be signed by the required number of qualified electors.
(Effective November 5, 2019)
The number of candidates for any office at any regular Municipal election in the City at large or in each ward, as the case may be, shall be the two candidates on the primary election ballot receiving the highest number of votes at the primary election. In case there shall not be for any office more than two persons who shall have filed petitions as provided for in this Charter, then said persons shall be the candidates at the regular Municipal election and the primary for the particular office shall not be held.
The name of each person who is nominated in compliance herewith shall be printed on the official ballot at the general election, and the names of no other candidates shall be printed thereon.
(Effective October 8, 1971)
All ballots used in elections held under authority of this Charter shall be without party marks or designations. Ballots used for the nomination or election of candidates shall contain a complete list of the offices to be filled, and the names of candidates for each office shall be arranged under the title thereof. Voters shall record their choices in the manner prescribed by the general law of the State.
(Effective November 4, 2008)
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