Filing Period Starts Monday For Election
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The filing period starts Monday for candidates who want to seek office in the annual school board elections Feb. 14.

Beginning at 8 a.m. Monday candidates may start filing for the offices up for re-election at 12 county schools, including Belfonte, Brushy, Central, Gans, Gore, Liberty, Marble City, Moffett, Muldrow, Roland, Sallisaw, and Vian.

Kathy Webb, Sequoyah County Election Board secretary, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Dec. 7.

Webb said if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast in the elections, the two candidates with the highest number of votes will meet in a run-off election on April 4.

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