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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 02, 2008 07:21pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Easton Express-Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 9/2/2008, 4:46 p.m. EDT
By RAMESH SANTANAM
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An independent candidate for Congress does not have enough valid signatures on his nomination petitions to have his name on the November ballot, a state judge ruled.
Senior Commonwealth Court Judge James R. Kelley ruled Tuesday that 1,542 of the more than 3,200 signatures Steven Porter collected were invalid because Porter helped some voters fill out his nomination petitions. Porter needed 2,171 valid signatures to be on the ballot.
Porter was seeking to unseat seven-term U.S. Rep. Phil English, R-Pa. Three Democratic voters sought to get Porter off the ballot because they were concerned he would siphon off votes from their candidate, Kathy Dahlkemper.
Porter, of Wattsburg, acknowledged at a hearing last week that he filled in at least the hometown and date next to more than 1,500 signatures.
Although the signatures themselves were valid and Porter did not intend to commit forgery or fraud, Kelley said state election law requires whoever signed the petition to fill out all the other required information.
Kelley said Porter filled out the hometowns and dates to ensure all the information he collected was correct, but, because of the election code's "stringent requirements," those efforts resulted in his name being removed from the ballot. |
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