'Healthy' response to Tweed council nominations
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Almost 40 people will contest the Tweed Shire Council elections next month.
It will be the first election since Tweed council was sacked and the shire was placed under administration in 2005.
Adrian Kerr from the New South Wales Electoral Commission says 39 candidates is a healthy response to nominations.
"Thirty-one independent candidates, four from the Liberal Party and four from the Greens, and they'll be all vying for seven positions," he said.
"Voters will vote pretty much in the same way they vote for any election, there is no absentee voting however at council elections, so our advice is if you're going to be outside your council area on September 13 then please consider pre-poll or postal voting."
