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Thursday, December 19, 2013 Serving the community of Ogdensburg,
New York Related Stories  Ladies and gentlemen, your primary
date  print this article e-mail this article  A federal court
decision has set New York's primary for federal, non-
presidential candidates on June 26.  That means that primary
voters will go to the polls for the Matt Doheny vs. Rep. Bill
Owens race on June 26.  That much, we know. But there are still
a bunch of unanswered questions.  To wit: Because redistricting
maps haven't even been released for federal candidates, the
petition process could get all sorts of jumbled up in a
compressed time frame. When it's happened before, the state
Board of Elections cut the number of signatures needed to get on
the ballot in half (to be eligible to get on a ballot in New
York, you need to get a certain number of valid signatures from
members of the party you're trying to ge