Filing Deadline For Municipal Elections

The deadline is noon on July 19th at the Board of Elections office at Bayboro (for Pamlico County).

So far, for the Town of Oriental, ten candidates have filed for the five seats (all at large) on the Town Board of Commissioners. Two incumbents (Warren Johnson and Barbara Venturi) have not yet filed for commissioner and no candidates have filed for mayor.

There may be yet more surprises in store tomorrow.

In the rest of the county, filing vacancies are:

Alliance: Three commissioner slots;

Arapahoe: Mayor and one commissioner slot;

Bayboro: Full slate;

Mesic: Full slate;

Minesott Beach: one commissioner slot;

Oriental: Mayor;

Stonewall: Full slate;

Vandemere: One commissioner.

Note: There is no upper limit on number of candidates who can file. If there are not enough candidates to fill all of the elected seats in a Town, the County Board of Elections has authority to extend the filing deadline one week, but no longer. If there remain an insufficient number of candidates, vacancies are filled by write-in votes.