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Citing COVID, Boston’s Mayoral Candidates Push To Lower Ballot Hurdles
Each Boston mayoral candidate has to get 3,000 unique signatures to get on the ballot — for now.
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In an open letter released Tuesday, five of Boston’s six mayoral candidates urged the state to relax the signature-gathering requirements to get on the ballot for the 2021 election, citing ongoing risks posed by the pandemic.
“Our ability to campaign for office and access the ballot in a manner consistent with public health is currently undermined by state laws requiring us to collect a high number of ‘in-person’ signatures in order to appear on ballots in the city of Boston,” said John Barros, City Councilors Andrea Campbell and Annissa Essabi George, acting Mayor Kim Janey and state Rep. John Santiago. ....

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