From 10 Clerk-certified Teaneck Council candidates running individually on September 6 there had emerged by COB on Friday September 16 a far different Council race.
- The number of candidates submitted for inclusion on the November 8 election ballot had been reduced by one (to 9) with the formal withdrawal from the race of previously-certified candidate David Highet
- Of the 9 remaining candidates 6 had - prior to the ballot position drawing - formally informed the Township Clerk that they were running together in one of two slates to be bracketed together .
These are the results which Town Clerk Ruccione announced he was submitting to the County Clerk for ballot preparation at 2:20 pm Friday afternoon:
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Four candidates running under the slogan RISE FOR TEANECK are to be bracketed together and thus will appear together - in alphabetical order - as follows:
- Denise Belcher
- Danielle Gee
- Hillary Goldberg
- Chondra Young
And because this slate of four were second in the Clerks ballot position drawing, they will be listed on the ballot as Nos. 2,3,4 and 5 (see diagram below)
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Two candidates running under the slogan MOVING TEANECK FORWARD TOGETHER are to be bracketed and thus will appear together - in alphabetical order - as follows
- Keith Kaplan
- Desiree Ramos Reiner
And because this slate of two were the fourth candidates in the Clerk's ballot position drawing, they will be listed as Nos. 7 and 8 on the ballot (see diagram below).
The three other candidates, each of whom is running individually (and each with a slogan) will be: - in alphabetical order:
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Anthony Bruno (slogan: ANTHONY BRUNO 2022 FOR TEANECK COUNCIL)
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Latisha Garcia (slogan COMMITTED TO COMMUMNITY; DEDICATED TO PROGRESS) and
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Elie Y. Katz (slogan MOVING TEANECK FORWARD)
And because each of these candidates running individually were drawn individually, Katz will on the ballot be #1, Bruno #5 and Garcia 9#,
At the public ballot drawing conducted by the Town Clerk and his staff, there were, then, five slips of paper drawn from a secure ballot box, unfolded and placed on the table under the watchful eyes of 5 candidates and others (a snip of them can be seen at Click Here. )
There are many noteworthy features of this process about which voters should be aware:
- There are four Council seats to be selected by the voters in 2022 meaning that 3 members of the current 7-member Council (Orgen, Pagan & Schwartz) will remain in office until their terms end in 2024;
- The fact that candidates have coalesced to bracket themselves and be listed together under a common slogan means that those candidates present themselves together for voter consideration as a slate with similar views. But each voter may select 4 candidates from any of the 9 candidate options;
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The full 4-member slate of candidates running under the RISE FOR TEANECK slogan are for, the first time in Teaneck, all women each of whom has distinctive professional training and experience;
- There are just two members of the current council running as incumbents; two other members (Dunleavy and Romney-Rice) chose not to run again;
- Most of the 9 candidates have filed their campaigns committees with the Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) - two (Bruno & Katz) have not filed as of 9/16.
- Election laws permit candidates who originally filed separately to merge some or all of their campaign finances in a joint campaign committee.
Voices wants to remind its readers that for many voters the election could begin within 10 days. For those who have signed up for mail-in voting, their ballots are now scheduled to arrive during the week of 9/25
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