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Political filing period begins Monday Thursday, Feb 28, 2008 Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK -- The curtain formally goes up on the 2008 state election season next week with the start of an abbreviated political filing period. The filing period for the May 20 primary and nonpartisan judicial elections begins at noon Monday and ends at noon on March 10. Secretary of State Charlie Daniels said Wednesday he planned a brief opening ceremony to kick off the filing period. Eighteen of the 35 state Senate seats and all 100 House seats, including 29 now held by term-limited representative, are up for election this year, as well as all four congressional seats. U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., is up for re-election. Additionally, two state Supreme Court seats and three seats on the state Court of Appeals are up for election on the same day as the state primary. Partisan candidates for county, city and township offices file with their county clerk during the filing period. Previously, candidates had two weeks to file. Act 1049 of 2007, however, moved the candidate filing period up from the third Tuesday in March to the first weekday in March and shortened it from two weeks to one week to allow more time for election officials to transmit absentee ballots to military and overseas voters, Daniels said. |
