Rules Committee continues elections-code cleanup, defers final vote

Supervisor Kim presented an ordinance to tidy the Municipal Elections Code after last year’s public-finance reforms and the June 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited certain public-finance triggers. She said the package would incorporate state-law nomination procedures for City College and Board of Education races, move the mayor and Board of Supervisors nomination deadlines to June, standardize withdrawal windows and clarify petition-circulator badge rules. "We did move up the declaration of candidacy to June...so that we would know the full field," she said.