So this is interesting: the DCCC's new candidate in Syracuse might not make the ballot. She needs 1,250 legitimate petition signatures and she may have come up short. A few reasons why /1https://interc.pt/2IQiwWB
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Juanita Perez Williams turned in more than 3,200 signatures, meaning 2,000 can be invalid and she still makes it. But in NY, it's very hard to get valid signatures, particularly with a paid rather than volunteer canvas. The petition gatherer must be have been a registered Dem /2
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...for at least a year. The voter, meanwhile, must be a registered Democrat in that particular district. And if a voter signed two petitions, only the first one counts, and her opponent started long before her, so a bunch of those could get tossed.../3
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...and the campaign hit local private colleges hard, where students are mostly out of state or from Brooklyn and Long Island. So those won't count. If she flops, she'll be the 2nd to go down this way...https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christina-hartman-withdraws-pennsylvania-house-race_us_5aba78f3e4b06409775ab459 …
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