The 100 seats on the Representative Town Meeting yet again don’t have even 100 candidates, and in no district is there a choice for voters, so if you want to be a write-in candidate, you have a good chance of getting on board. At Monday night’s meeting of the RTM, where less than 70 members were present, Town Clerk Donna Rajczewski announced that as of today, when the deadline to get on the ballot already has passed, there are fewer candidates than there are seats in every district but one (District 3, where there are just as many candidates as there are seats up for election). Here’s the breakdown:
District 1 — 13 seats — 9 candidates will be on the ballot
District 2 — 8 seats — 2 candidates
District 3 — 7 seats — 7 candidates
District 4 — 10 seats — 9 candidates
District 5 — 8 seats — 5 candidates
District 6 — 11 seats — 7 candidates
Here’s a map showing where the districts are, and here’s a street list showing which addresses are in which district. The deadline to become a write-in candidate for the Representative Town Meeting is the day before election day, and candidates must register at the Town Clerk’s Office. Candidates not only need to be the top vote-vote getters in their district for however many seats need to be filled, they also need to get at least 25 voters voting for them (“not like other offices”), Rajczewski said.
