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Rules Committee continues elections-code cleanup, defers final vote
Summary
The Rules Committee heard an ordinance to amend the Municipal Elections Code to align local nomination and withdrawal deadlines with state law, adjust petition and voter‑guide rules and reinstate some filing-fee provisions. The committee moved the ordinance for amendment and continued it to a subsequent hearing.
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.
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