It looked like it was all over Monday when the publicized filing deadline for the city’s special election came and went with only three candidates filing for three vacant seats on the Clarendon Board of Aldermen. But then the Texas Secretary of State’s office said the deadline is next week.
Larry Jeffers, Wayne Cole, and Doug Kidd were the only candidates who had filed as of 5 p.m. Monday; and if that had been the deadline, the three would have been declared elected.
City Hall checked with state officials Tuesday to ensure all the deadlines and benchmarks had been properly met, and that’s when the discrepancy was discovered. Since it is a special election, the deadline to file as a candidate is actually next Wednesday, September 4, at 5 p.m.
Potential candidates can still file for the three positions. Jeffers and Cole signed up to run for two terms that expire in May 2014, and Kidd signed up for the term to expire in May 2015.
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