State Supreme Court: Special Election Can Go On As Planned

[monmouth3]

The state Supreme Court Thursday afternoon said it will not hear a challenge to the October special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat of late Sen. Frank Lautenberg.

In a single-page opinion handed down Thursday afternoon, the court dismissed the challenge brought by Somerset Democratic Chair Peg Schaffer, who argued Gov. Chris Christie did not have the authority to create the Oct. 16 special election.
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Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said Schaffer’s request for the court to hear the case is denied.

Schaffer argued that Gov. Chris Christie overstepped his authority in setting the election just 20 days before the regular Nov. 5 polling date and that voters would be unnecessarily confused and disenfrachised by Christie's move.

More at: http://howell.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/state-supreme-court-special-election-can-go-on-as-planned

[leftyohiolib]

1. dem politicians better get out the info on why dems have to goto both elections and the dems better

get out and vote both dates. the only way to beat him at his own game