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MEMORANDUM
DATE: March 3, 2025
TO: Mayor and Councilmembers
THROUGH:
FROM:
RE:
Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Rupa Venkatesh, Assistant City Manager
Cecilia Good, Senior Deputy City Clerk
Election Code Presentation
The attached presentation has been created for the City Council meeting on March 4th by request at the
LPT meeting held on 3/3.
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Write-in Candidates
February 2025
Cecilia Good, Senior Deputy
City Clerk
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Code Changes Proposed for Council Consideration
Write-In Candidates
Proposal to eliminate write-in candidates.
•Sec. 7-103. -Write-in candidates.
•No write-in vote for a candidate for City Council office
shall be counted. unless the person whose name
appears as the write-in vote has filed an affidavit of intent
with the City Clerk, no later than the close of business
sixty-four (64) days before the election, indicating that
such person desires and is qualified for the office.
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•Nomination Petitions:
•25 signatures
•Currently 71 days before election:
8/25/25
•Proposed amendment to 70 days:
8/26/25
•Write-In Candidates:
•No nomination petition or signatures
are required
•File affidavit of intent indicating
desire & qualification to run
•Currently 64 days before election:
8/29/25
⎻(9/1/25 is Labor Day)
•Deadline for City to File with County:
•9/5/25
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