Jamestown  (CSi) Jill Schwartz (Gainer) has announced that she is ending her candidacy for the Stutsman County Commission,due to “family commitments and the obligations of being a new single mom.”

She was one of  three candidates on the November 2020 election ballot.

Schwartz’s name will still be  on the ballot, as they have been printed.

The deadline for removing a name for candidacy on the ballot was September 2,2020.

If Schwartz received enough votes to be elected, the office would be considered vacant.

With two active candidates for two open seats on the county commission, incumbent Mark Klose and  Joan Morris are candidates on the general election ballot.  In the June primary, election, Jill Schwartz was third in the balloting, of  candidates, with 2,337 votes.  2,731 for incumbent Mark Klose and 2,765 for Joan Morris.