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FFSD Board Filing Begins Dec. 17;
Cumulative Voting with 3 Candidates
Individuals wanting to file a Declaration of Candidacy for three open seats in the 2020 Ferguson-Florissant School District Board of Education election may do so beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17. The three-year terms of current board members Rob Chabot, Donna Paulette-Thurman and Jessica Ponder will expire in April 2020.
Declarations of Candidacy may be picked up in the Office of the Superintendent, 8855 Dunn Rd., Hazelwood, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on days the district is open. Under Missouri law, the first day to file as a candidate is Tuesday, Dec. 17. Filing closes at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. District offices will be closed Monday, Dec. 23 through Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 and Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. The annual election for the Board of Education is Tuesday, April 7, 2020.
Individuals wishing to file for candidacy for the Board of Education must be:
• A citizen of the United States
•At least 24 years old
• A resident taxpayer of the school district
• A resident of the state of Missouri for at least one year
In addition, the candidate must follow these procedures:
•File a declaration of candidacy
• Line up for filing pursuant to district Policy 4013
The Ferguson-Florissant School District board election in April 2020 will be conducted by cumulative voting, a change ordered by the federal court. In cumulative voting, voters cast as many votes as there are seats. Voters are not limited to giving only one vote to a candidate. Instead, they can give their votes to one or more candidates. For instance, in this election for three open board seats, voters could choose to give one vote each to three different candidates, one vote to one candidate and two votes to another, or three votes to a single candidate.
