Skoufis submits 5,000 signatures for November ballot

ALBANY — Assemblyman and State Senate candidate James Skoufis (D-Woodbury) filed petitions on Thursday, July 12, to qualify for this November’s election.
In what the campaign called a demonstration of enormous grassroots support, Skoufis submitted petitions totaling about 5,000 signatures to appear on five lines on the ballot: the Democratic, Independence, Working Families, Women’s Equality and Reform parties.
“I want to thank the thousands of individual voters who signed my petitions as well as the overwhelming number of volunteers who hit the doors to help me get on the ballot,” Skoufis said in the press release detailing the petitions. “Our message is clearly resonating with people who are fed up with politics as usual. Simply put, this campaign is about bringing people and communities together to Make New York Fair Again.”
Skoufis’ petitions far exceeded the needed signatures to appear on each ballot line, including more than quadrupling the 1,000 required to appear on the Democratic line.
Skoufis is running for the state Senate seat that opened when longtime Republican incumbent William J. Larkin Jr. announced that he would not see re-election.
Tom Basile, a member of the Stony Point Town Board, is the Republican in the contest.