Sturgeon Bay mayoral race: David Ward faces write-in campaign from Andrea Frank
STURGEON BAY - Voters will find just one candidate on their ballots in the race for mayor of Sturgeon Bay in the April 1 election after an appeal by a hoped-for challenger to be on the ballot won't be decided until after the election.
But that challenger is continuing to campaign as a write-in candidate and picked up some endorsements along the way for her run against an incumbent seeking a third term who's easily won his past races for city government.
Andrea Frank filed nomination papers with 51 signatures before the Jan. 7 deadline to become a candidate against Mayor David Ward, and she was listed as a candidate the day after the deadline by city clerk Stephanie Reinhardt in an email to the Advocate.
But a later review of the signatures on her papers by the clerk's office found three of them were by people who weren't Sturgeon Bay residents, which meant the number of signatures fell below the 50 required to be listed as a candidate on the election ballots.
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