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The legal team of Marvin Holland, a candidate in the special election
for a vacant Harlem City Council seat, is attempting to boot almost all
his rivals from the ballot in the special election scheduled for
February 14—including the presumptive frontrunner, current State Senator Bill Perkins.
The seat formerly belonged to Councilwoman Inez Dickens, who won
election to the Assembly last fall and assumed her new state role on
January 1. City law obligated Mayor Bill de Blasio to call a special
election within three days of the post opening up.
Special elections for the Council are non-partisan,
obligating each candidate to collect petition signatures from registered
voters in the district in order to create their own original ballot
line. The names of these new, unique lines cannot resemble the names of
any existing party.
Holland, a Democrat who serves as
legislative and political director of the Transit Workers Union Local
100, filed petitions to run on a row called Holland4Harlem—and has filed
objections challenging the validity of the signatures of seven of his
opponents.
Holland’s attorney, Sarah Steiner, called most of these claims “a routine filing.”
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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)
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