According to Falls Church Registrar of Voters David Bjerke, now four Falls Church citizens are working ahead of Friday’s deadline to qualify for the ballot in the special election to be held Nov. 5 to fill the seat on the F.C. City Council vacated by the resignation earlier this month of Caroline Lian.

      Bjerke has told the News-Press that two of the candidates, Laura Downs and John Murphy, have submitted the required 125 signatures of registered Falls Church voters  and other paperwork and have been qualified for the ballot. Two others, Brian W. Pendleton and Leandra Joy Bernstein, have submitted their certificate of candidacy and declaration of candidacy forms, but not yet the petitions with the required signatures.

     Bjerke said that as of the deadline to file at 5 p.m. this Friday, he will be able to announce very soon after that who all the qualified candidates will be.