{"id":7639,"date":"2024-07-26T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:33:30","slug":"municipal-election-candidate-packages-now-available-at-region-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/07\/26\/municipal-election-candidate-packages-now-available-at-region-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal election candidate packages now available at region offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6782\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6782\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign.jpg 1526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidate information packages for the Oct. 19 municipal election are now available at Region of Queens offices. (Elections Nova Scotia Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you want to run for Region of Queens mayor or council in October, information packages for candidates are now available at the region\u2019s administration building on White Point Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The offices are open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To run for council or mayor, you must be a resident of Queens County as of March 9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadline to file your nomination papers is Sept. 10, though you can file the paperwork seven business days before the deadline, beginning Aug. 29.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are two advance polls: Oct. 12 and 15, with Election Day on Oct. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, for the first time, voters will have three ways to cast their ballots &#8211; in person, by phone or online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, contact returning officer Ian Kent at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:ikent@regionofqueens.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ikent@regionofqueens.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or 902-646-1033.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to run for Region of Queens mayor or council in October, information packages for candidates are now available at the region\u2019s administration building on White Point Road. The offices are open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. To run for council or mayor, you must be a resident of Queens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2503,2488,2505,2504,543,316,2444,2490,1786,2442,2506,49,24],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2024-election","tag-2024-municipal-election","tag-advance-polls","tag-candidate-packages","tag-council","tag-election","tag-election-campaign","tag-election-day","tag-ian-kent","tag-mayor","tag-municipal-politics","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}