ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has denied an attempt by five local voters to secure a preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of results from November’s general election by the Lehigh County Board of Elections, since the plaintiffs’ votes were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date.
ALLENTOWN – A quintet of local plaintiffs whose mail-in votes from November’s general election were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date have sued the Lehigh County Board of Elections in federal court, seeking an emergency preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of the results.
State Senate candidate Marty Flynn filed an amended financial interest statement Friday during a break in a hearing meant to determine if a previous statement he filed should mean heâs taken off the May 18 election ballot.
Flynn, a Democratic state representative, also promised to file another amended statement after a lawyer for two Scranton Republicans challenging his ballot status got him to admit the new financial interest statement didnât include rental income from the other apartment in the Oram Street duplex where he lives.
âNow that I know that I have to, yes,â Flynn testified when his lawyer, attorney Adam C. Bonin, asked if he would amend the statement yet again.
Two Scranton Republicans want state Rep. Marty Flynn thrown off the May 18 special election ballot for the vacant 22nd state Senate District seat.
Charlie Spano and Joe Albert â who used his full name, Arthur J. Albert in paperwork â contend Flynn never personally filed a valid financial interest statement on time.
Instead, a man named Luke Borwegen electronically filed Flynnâs financial interest statement March 18 and an unknown person filed an unsigned, written copy with the Pennsylvania Department of State a day later, their challenge says.
Borwegen is Flynnâs campaign manager, but Albert and Spano say Borwegen is neither a candidate nor a public official. That and the unsigned copy mean Flynn personally never filed a financial interest statement in time as required by the state Public Official and Employee Ethics Act, according to the challenge they filed Thursday asking the state Commonwealth Court to remove Flynn as a candidate.