It appears Montgomery County voters will have three choices in the race for county executive, not just two, when they step into the voting booth in November.
Democrat-turned-independent Nancy M. Floreen submitted 20,343 petition signatures to the Board of Elections on Monday afternoon, almost three times the number she needs to qualify for the ballot.
Assuming she meets the legal threshold of 7,255 valid signatures, Floreen will run against fellow County Council member Marc B. Elrich, winner of the Democratic primary, and Robin Ficker, the GOP nominee.
“It’s amazing,” she said of her team’s three-week effort, a push helped along considerably by the work of two paid signature-gathering firms, Field Works and The North Consulting. “These petition drives are very demanding.”
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