U.S. District Court Judge Joel Slomsky will hear Little v Vasquez on Wednesday, September 13, at 2 p.m. This is the lawsuit filed by the Republican nominee and the Green nominee in the special legislative election in Philadelphia that has held on March 21, 2017. The Democratic and Green nominees were both write-in candidates. The only name on the ballot was the Republican nominee, Lucinda Little. The Green nominee was Cheri Honkala; she placed second, ahead of the Republican.
The plaintiffs argue that the election was so flawed that the results should be set aside. The Republican and Green nominees charge that polling place officials actively encouraged voters to cast a write-in for the Democratic nominee.
This case has moved slowly because the defendants took so long to answer the complaint.
This is why we need polling officials from all recognized parties not just the REPs and DEMs. Its one thing if one party says the other broke the rules and another if 3 or 4 parties said that a party broke the rules.
One more reason to have all paper mail secret ballots.
I’m not sure about the “mail” part Demo Rep but otherwise I agree with you!
At this point what could the court even do in this situation? Could/would they throw the results out of even though it will have been seven months since the election? It was already a special election, so the idea of doing a redo for a seat that is up again in 2018 seems a bit excessive.