Democrats Accuse 25th Congressional Candidates of Violations
WRVO (PBS)
September 3rd, 2008
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Democrats Accuse 25th Congressional Candidates of Violations
Jason Smith
OSWEGO, NY (2008-09-03) In the race for New York's 25th Congressional district, Democrats are accusing one candidate of violating federal election law and are challenging another candidates election petitions.
In a statement, the New York State Democratic Committee says Republican candidate Dale Sweetland violated federal election law by failing to file financial disclosure forms by the August 28 deadline.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Sweetland's campaign was sent a notice on August 29th, saying they had missed the filing deadline. The notice says if the campaign fails to file the forms in 4 business days, civil penalties could follow. The disclosure forms were filed on September 2.
Meanwhile, Democrats are challenging thousands of petition signatures filed by Green Populist party candidate Howie Hawkins. As a 3rd party candidate, Hawkins needed 3500 signatures to get on the ballot whiole major party candidates need 1250. Hawkins collected more than 6 thousand signatures, but a spokesman for Democrat Dan Maffei says many of the signatures collected were from people who aren't registered to vote. That would make the signatures invalid.
The state board of elections is expected to address the matter on Friday.
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