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Monday, August 25, 2008

The Town Council Wants to Change Article VII. Nomination and Elections

ARTICLE VII. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS

Sec. 7.02. Nomination by Petition.

(a) Petitions. Candidates for Town Council, School Committee, Water Commission and Budget Advisory Board shall be nominated by petition. Any qualified voter of the Town may be nominated for election as a Council member at large, School Committee member, Water Commissioner or Budget Advisory Board member at large by not less than 50 nor more than 75 qualified voters of the Town by signing a nomination petition. Any qualified voter may be nominated for election as a Council member from the district in which he or she resides or as a Budget Advisory Board member from the district in which he or she resides by not less than 50 nor more than 75 qualified voters of the district by signing a nomination petition. Nomination petitions shall be filed on forms provided by the Town Clerk. Each petition shall clearly indicate the office to which nomination is sought and, if for Town Council and Budget Advisory Board, whether the seat is at large or for a specified district. No nomination petitions shall be issued by the Clerk more than thirty (40 instead of 30) days prior to the earliest date upon which a completed petition could legally be accepted by the Clerk. The signatures on a nominating petition need not all be affixed to the same paper, but an affidavit which has been executed by the circulator shall be attached to each separate sheet of the petition. The circulator shall state in the affidavit the number of signatures on the paper, that each signature was affixed in the circulator's presence, and that the circulator believes it to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The petitioners shall sign their names in ink. Each signer shall indicate his or her street address next to his or her signature. The name and address of the signers and of the candidates do not have to be identical in form to the voting registration list as long as their identity can be clearly determined from the information provided. There is no limit on the number of petitions which may be signed by any one voter.

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