On August 20, India B. Walton, Democratic Party nominee for Mayor of Buffalo, New York, in the November 2, 2021 election, challenged the independent petition of the incumbent Mayor, Byron Brown. It is likely that the Board will sustain the challenge. Then, the Mayor will sue to overturn the May petition deadline. The New York independent candidate deadline was changed in 2019 from August to May. The primary is in late June. There are multiple precedents that say independent candidate petition deadlines cannot be earlier than primary day, or at least they can’t be earlier than the day before the primary.
UPDATE: the Erie County Board of Elections will consider the Byron Brown petition on Friday, August 27, at 2 p.m.
Commie vs commie. Either way the citizens of Buffalo lose.
Just vote Libertarian and be done with the Duopoly.
I hope Brown wins the election. Buffalo is a major city. It seems really wrong to me that the place is going to be governed by someone who received 11,718 votes in a closed primary that most people weren’t taking seriously. The voters deserve to have at least two names to choose from.
Always Vote Republican