TEWKSBURY – The upcoming 2024 Tewksbury city election has 12 elected positions to fill. A number of positions at the moment have uncontested races, however this might change within the coming weeks with the addition of recent write-in campaigns.
These occasions occurred final week with the incorporation of three new written registration campaigns for the three vacant positions on the Board of Well being.
Based on the Tewksbury City Clerk's Workplace, Donna Robitaille, Luke Miller and Afabillia (Febe) Torres Cunha have introduced write-in campaigns for the Board of Well being seats, becoming a member of present candidates George Ferdinand and Chris Janeczak.
Though the dates for acquiring and returning acceptable nomination paperwork have now closed, potential candidates can nonetheless apply for workplace as a write-in candidate.
Based on Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin, step one in conducting a write-in marketing campaign is to contact your native elections workplace.
It is strongly recommended that you just inform native officers of your intention to run for workplace, not solely to allow them to clarify the method to potential candidates, but additionally to allow them to put together ballot employees who will rely the votes to know if a marketing campaign is anticipated. written.
There will probably be area on the ballots for write-in candidates for the workplace they search.
Write-in candidates might distribute title stickers for voters to put within the write-in area; nevertheless, voters should not required to make use of the stickers and handwritten votes will proceed to be counted whatever the sticker drive.
It’s as much as the candidate to ensure voters know what workplace they’re operating for. If the write-in candidate's title is written underneath the area for a special workplace, the vote will probably be counted for the workplace for which it was written, and never for the workplace for which the candidate supposed to run.
Like candidates who’ve withdrawn nomination papers, write-in candidates can ship marketing campaign supplies and use marketing campaign indicators all through town, so long as they aren’t inside 150 ft of a polling place.
For extra details about write-in candidacy or tips on how to solid a write-in vote, go to the Metropolis Clerk's Workplace at 1009 Predominant Road or contact the workplace at 978-640-4355.