{"id":219364,"date":"2025-09-11T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:15:23","slug":"jim-waldens-name-ordered-to-remain-on-nyc-mayoral-ballot-in-november-despite-dropping-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219364\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Walden’s name ordered to remain on NYC mayoral ballot in November despite dropping out of race"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long-shot mayoral candidate will remain on the Big Apple ballot this November, despite dropping out last week, according to a ruling by a Manhattan judge.<\/p>\n

Judge Jeffery H. Pearlman ruled Thursday against former City Hall hopeful, attorney Jim Walden, who had sued the city\u2019s Board of Elections in a bid to wipe his name from the ballot after ending his campaign last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jim Walden\u2019s name will remain on the mayoral election ballot this fall despite the attorney ending his campaign, a judge ruled after a Thursday morning hearing in Manhattan. William Farrington<\/p>\n

Walden filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming that keeping his name on the ballot was akin to voter \u201cdisenfranchisement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BOE denied his request, stating that the deadline to remove his name was months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, as the Board of Elections followed the law precisely as written, refusing to accept a declination of candidacy more than 3 months after the deadline for such paperwork, the Court finds that the Board was not arbitrary and capricious,\u201d Pearlman wrote in his decision. <\/p>\n

The BOE said election law only allows candidate names to be culled from the ballot ahead of a Sept. 19 printing deadline if they moved out of state, accepted a judicial nomination or suffered a sudden death.<\/p>\n

Walden claimed in court Thursday that he \u201cvolunteered\u201d to move to his second home in Connecticut for the duration of the election.<\/p>\n

BOE attorney Grace Pyun said that they never received a filing stating his plans to relocate.<\/p>\n

Jim Walden sued the Board of Elections on Wednesday, claiming that keeping his name on the ballot would \u201cdisenfranchise\u201d voters. William Farrington<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have the discretion to remove Mr. Walden from the ballot,\u201d a Board of Elections attorney said. X\/jimfornyc<\/p>\n

Despite a lively rebuttal from Walden, Pearlman appeared unconvinced.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should have moved to Connecticut,\u201d the judge said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right thing is for a candidate that withdraws to have their name removed unless there\u2019s a compelling interest in keeping the name on,\u201d Jim Walden said after his hearing. \u201cIt\u2019s just common sense.\u201d William Farrington<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right thing is for a candidate that withdraws to have their name removed unless there\u2019s a compelling interest in keeping the name on,\u201d Walden told The Post after the hearing. \u201cIt\u2019s just common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walden polled at less than one percent in a recent NY Times\/Siena Poll released this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-shot mayoral candidate will remain on the Big Apple ballot this November, despite dropping out last week,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13573,336,10476,9117,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-219364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-board-of-elections","10":"tag-lawsuits","11":"tag-manhattan-supreme-court","12":"tag-mayoral-race","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115188211721499378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}