More Information:
Issues:
Author
Ruby Sinreich
I was the founder, administrator, and chief editor of OrangePolitics until I retired from Orange County life in 2014.
About Us
OrangePolitics is a not-for-profit website for discussing progressive perspectives on politics, planning, and public policy in Orange County, NC. Opinions are those of their authors. Learn more.
Community Guidelines
By using this site, you agree to our community guidelines. Inappropriate or disruptive behavior will result in moderation or eviction.
Content license
By contributing to OrangePolitics, you agree to license your contributions under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Zircon - This is a contributing Drupal Theme
Design by WeebPal.
Design by WeebPal.
Comments
These costs are nuts
No basis in reality. Please don't tell our children how dysfunctional our government systems are.
Why?
Besides the fact that it is insanely high, why $826? What does this number represent?
1% of annual salary
Per NC General Statute §163-107, it is 1% of the annual salary for the office sought.
Interesting
So an Orange County School Borad member only gets $500. That's not fair.
fees
For some reason, some local races are less than the 1% filing fee. Town council's fee was $5 even though the annual salaray is around $13,000. In 2008 I was so upset with Dole, I was thinking of running for senate and the filing fee was over $2000. Loren
Local races
Local filing fees are not set by state statute, but rather are set by the local governing boards themselves, I'm pretty sure.
Re: Local races
That seems right. The Board of Aldermen set the fee for the Carrboro special election.
2,614 signatures is an option to the fee
or you can get the signatures of 2,614 Orange County Democrats and bypass the fee (5%)http://ncleg.net/gascripts/statutes/statutelookup.pl?statute=163-107.1http://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/webapps/voter_stats/results.aspx?date=02-08-2014
Signatures
That's interesting, Gerry, I never knew about the signature option. Do you have any examples of this being done in recent history?
rarely used
This has been very rarely used. Currently Heather Grant (US Senate - R) has filed notice she is gathering signatures but has not turned any in. There is also a 7th congressional district candidate doing it. The State database only shows petition status for statewide/congressional/DA/jusicial candidates. I do know that Howard Dean in 2003 started gathering petition signatures to get on the NC 2004 presidential primary ballot, but redistricting litigation caused the primary to be cancelled and caucuses were used instead.
FWIW filing fee history
set at $5 for sheriff in 1915 in the original primary act. Changed to 1/2% in 1933 and 1% in 1939.
I ran in 1992 as an independent
and have no recollection what I paid. I had so much support from rural voters who supported my call for fair representation that money was not a concern.
Paid the $146 filing fee
to run for county commissioner in District 2's democratic primary. As Marvin Gaye once said, "Let's get it on".
Six sherriff candidates and counting
...and already 6 candidates have plunked down the $826 to file! http://orangepolitics.org/elections-2014/candidates
Sheriff
is a word with baggage.