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Two sue to get on the May ballot for central committee
Two women are suing the Butler County Board of Elections to get on the ballot for the GOP central committee this year.
Both say they did everything they were supposed to in order to get on the ballot in the May primary, but were disqualified by the board. They have filed suit in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
The Board of Elections is meeting at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 11, to discuss the lawsuits.
One plaintiff is Courtney Caparella-Kraemer, a local attorney running in one of the most crowded central committee races in the county.
Even without Caparella-Kraemer, the ballot for that West Chester Twp. precinct — which contains 265 registered Republicans — will have three candidates for central committee.
One of them is Mark Haverkos, who filed the complaint to remove Caparella-Kraemer from the ballot on the grounds that she filed to run in two precincts at once.
Haverkos, a Tea Party activist who is also running to unseat the state central committee man, said there are so many other people in the race because “The party put them up to it.”
In her court filing, Caparella-Kraemer argues she was in the process of moving while filing for the race. She filed for her old precinct, then her new precinct, then withdrew from the first race.
She says that she did exactly what Board of Elections staff asked her to.
Board of Elections members say they consulted with the Secretary of State’s office prior to disqualifying her from the ballot, and were told she was ineligible because she filed for two races at once, and did not live in the precinct she wished to run in on the day she filed.
Caparella-Kraemer would not comment on the case.
“I shall leave it now in the hands of the Butler County Board of Elections without further comment or criticism and shall await their decision,” she said in a prepared statement. “My appeal is in place to proceed if necessary.”
The other plaintiff is Victoria Robertson, who was disqualified from the Republican ballot because records have her as a registered Democrat. She says this was a mistake by her pollworkers — that she has never been a Democrat — and her polling judge and the elections board agreed she is probably right.
Both women are asking a judge to order the Board of Elections to put their names on the ballot, which the board said it couldn’t do on advice from the Secretary of State.
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By Tim
March 11, 2010 3:49 PM | Link to this
Is this more pillow talk, did Don tell Betty to kick these people off the ballot?