Endorsement Meeting and Local Candidates’ Night 

Mar 21 2010 7:30 pm

Location: Suzanne Patterson Center, One Monument Drive (behind Boro Hall), Princeton, NJ

Candidates for two Township Committee seats:  
Liz Lempert and Lance Liverman

Candidates for two Borough Council seats: 
Jo Butler, Nick Karp, Andrew Koontz, Roger Martindell and Anne Neumann.

ELIGIBLE PCDO MEMBERS
Registered Democrats who reside in Princeton Borough or Princeton Township and a paid member as of Sunday March 7.

MEETING SCHEDULE
7:30 - 7:45 Opening Remarks
7:45 - 8:00 Candidate remarks – up to 3 minutes each by Borough Council candidates: Jo Butler, Nick Karp, Andrew Koontz, Roger Martindell and Anne Neumann
8:00 - 8:30 Questions from floor: all questions will be written on index cards and passed up front.
8:30 - 9:00 Ballots Collected. Township Candidates (all uncontested) will speak while Borough vote is being tallied: Liz Lempert and Lance Liverman. Vote by Acclamation.
9:00 Results of Borough vote announced

GUIDELINES UTILIZED for the ENDORSEMENT MEETING:

  • Ballots will be handed to eligible members upon check-in at the beginning of the meeting.
  • Each Borough candidate will have up to three (3) minutes to address the organization members
  • Written questions on index cards will be taken from audience members at the completion of all presentations and then asked of the candidates by a moderator
  • Candidates will not be permitted to ask questions of each other
  • Names of candidates will appear on the ballot in alphabetical order
  • Eligible PCDO members will have the option of voting for up to two candidates or voting for No Endorsement
  • Ballots will be collected and counted immediately after voting. In a departure from last year’s procedure, no early voting will be allowed—a recent review of the bylaws clearly revealed that voting should not commence until all candidates have spoken, and the executive board has ratified the decision to recommit to this procedure.
  • In order to obtain the endorsement, a candidate will need to obtain votes from both of the following:
    1. 1. Majority of PCDO members present and casting a valid ballot
    2. 2. 60% of PDCO members who reside in the candidate's home municipality present and casting a valid ballot
  • There is no proxy or absentee voting

For more information see Elections and Endorsements.