On October 7, a Commonwealth Court heard In re Nomination Petition of Carl Stevenson again.  This is the case over whether an independent candidate for the legislature should be on the ballot.  The first time this case had been in Commonwealth Court, the Commonwealth Court Judge had ruled that signatures collected by someone who lives outside the district are invalid.  Then the State Supreme Court had ruled that the Commonwealth Court should look at the petition again, and this time check all the signatures, even those collected by the out-of-district circulators.

Another Commonwealth Court judge had the case this time, and he ruled that signatures by out-of-district circulators are valid.  But then, having looked at all signatures, he ruled that the candidate still doesn’t have enough signatures.  See this story.