Lewis Cheek, a county commissioner here in Durham, submitted enough signatures (including mine) to qualify for the November ballot:
Lewis Cheek has enough signatures to get his name on the November ballot and run against the district attorney prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case. Now, the question is whether he will make the race.
Supporters of a candidacy for the Democratic county commissioner and lawyer said they turned in about 10,000 petition signatures from registered voters to Durham County's elections office by a noon deadline Friday.
That was significantly more than the 6,303 signatures required by law, though Durham County elections director Mike Ashe said officials must certify the signatures.
...Brown said only Cheek can say whether he will run against incumbent Democratic District Attorney Mike Nifong.
Cheek has said he has not yet made up his mind, but authorized supporters to go ahead and collect signatures before Friday's deadline for getting his name on the ballot.
Let's hope he decides to take the plunge. The other potential candidate, Steve Monks, failed to get enough signatures, which means Cheek would face Nifong in a two-way race -- the only plausible scenario in which the DA could be defeated.
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