But political parties were also scrambling to meet the Monday deadline for candidates to submit their election papers.
Filing formal election papers with the FEC means that money from those events can now be split between the party and the President's re-election campaign.
The group was traveling to file election papers when Mr. Upham and the other militiamen herded everyone to a hilltop, shot the victims and buried them in mass graves.
Most of the 57 killed last November were on their way to file election papers for a political rival of the Ampatuans.
Secondly, a current director and the then managing director of Broadgate Estates were among the five people who nominated him in election papers to contest a byelection in 2009.
These included the arrest of two prospective councillors in Tower Hamlets, east London, and Enfield, north London, for false declarations on election papers.
And on May 15th, the Electoral Commission unexpectedly allowed Mr Sharif to contest a by-election, raising the possibility of his re-entering Parliament (previously, his election papers had been rejected).
A few days later, Murtaza's wife, Ghanwa, who is Lebanese-born, arrived in Karachi to file his election papers as an independent candidate, for seats in both the provincial assembly and the National Assembly in twenty-three constinuencieSindhSindh; in almost all cases, he will stand against the P.P.P. — even in the Karachi slum area of Lyari, where he will challenge Benazir's husband, Asif.
He himself could not run for Parliament because he had not filed election papers in November 2008, back when he had no foreseeable political ambition while Bhutto was alive.
On April 4, 2011, Obama announced his re-election campaign for 2012 in a video titled "It Begins with Us" that he posted on his website and filed election papers with the Federal Election Commission.
