08/12/10 - 04:22 AM
newstoday says...
Trial date set, Jonathan Ervin Vs Lancaster California
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08/12/10 - 05:16 AM
lancaster says...
wow, kind of dry and, well uninformative.
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08/12/10 - 05:17 AM
lancaster says...
Subject: judge sets trial date in challenge to Lancaster city elections

Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 4:26 PM

…For Immediate Release:

Scandal negates voter rights.
Judge sets trial date despite city of Lancaster ’s attempt to have charges dismissed

For further information: Johnathon Ervin, 661-xxx-xxxx

Johnathon Ervin, former candidate for the Lancaster City Council, legally challenged the outcome of the election results in Los Angeles Superior Court. Ervin cited alleged serious discrepancies in the voting procedures, process, handling of the ballots, ability of constituents to find voting places and the violation of other serious election protocols such as possible candidate access to the ballots before the counting process.

Despite the city’s attempt to quash the lawsuit, the court heard the arguments supporting Ervin’s claim on August 11th at the Stanley Mosk courthouse in downtown Los Angeles .

The Judge ruled that the case will go forward and the trial date is set for December 13, 2010.

Allegations included:

• First and 14th Amendment rights of citizens were grossly violated.

• City clerk certified an out-of –area candidate for election,

• Immediately following election, city clerk told candidate she was ineligible,

• Absentee ballots left unsecured and in the presence of an incumbent.

Ervin charges that the city’s chief election officer administered the April 13, 2010, election with such negligence and impropriety that the rights of the citizens were trampled under the First and Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

As with the city of Bell , the city council incumbent candidates and the city manager corrupted public trust in the voting process. In a setting of Machiavellian proportions, the city clerk certified one candidate as eligible to run and is accused of telling the candidate after the election that she was not. The candidate was also told: “That fact didn’t not have to be public record and to quietly close your campaign account and file your final form 460 in a non-public manner.”

“I feel that the clerk’s negligence disenfranchised over 2,000 voters from casting a vote for a qualified candidate,” Ervin added.

In addition, Ervin’s attorney, Alex Aaretakis, charges an incumbent candidate was in the same room as absentee ballots strewn about a hallway totally unsecured causing a breach in the chain of custody. Additionally, polling places were so obscure that even the Mayor said at a council meeting that he had had trouble finding his place to vote in some instances. Complaints were also lodged about the election officer censoring candidates’ biographies in the voting manual.

The mayor’s response at a city council meeting was to negate the impact of this situation on the final results. He said future elections would be better run.

Ervin represents the first city council candidate to take a case of this magnitude to court. In the past, discrepancies have simply been ignored
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08/12/10 - 05:19 AM
lancaster says...
the JUDGE ruled that the case would go forward. hhhmmmmmmmmm
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08/12/10 - 10:58 AM
Randy Hall says...
Wow lanc, a cut and paste.

HYPOCRITE!
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08/12/10 - 12:15 PM
No Spin says...
This should be interesting…
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08/12/10 - 01:28 PM
Randy Hall says...
Hey, lanc makes the charge so he/it needs to understand how easy that insult can be hurled.
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08/12/10 - 03:59 PM
lancaster says...
what a dumbass. i never bitched about cut n paste. donno donna hates cut n paste.
and has never answered why he hates them from libs, but not repugs.
request #7
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08/12/10 - 04:38 PM
Randy Hall says...
You never told me I don’t think for myself because I use cut and paste?

What exactly are you requesting (#7)?

Oh, any name you call me makes me proud you think so little of me. You seem to love the communist so I’d rather be hated by you than the admiration you have for the revolutionary socialist.
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08/12/10 - 04:40 PM
whomeye says...
actually matt and guy hate cut n paste.
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08/12/10 - 04:44 PM
lancaster says...
good god tb, do u ever get tired of playing the victim?

section 8 recipients got nothing on U!
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08/12/10 - 04:46 PM
lancaster says...
and newt n rex seem to love the communist, so maybe ur thinking wrong, again!
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08/12/10 - 05:14 PM
Randy Hall says...
Does that make you just like Rex too?
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08/12/10 - 07:32 PM
AV Town Crier says...
The bottom line is: It will go to a court of law and be decided based on the law. The facts will come out and the judge (and/or jury) will decide the issues.
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08/12/10 - 10:22 PM
roxi says...
lancaster says…
wow, kind of dry and, well uninformative.
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It was edited for K-12. Paragraph about the city of Bell:“In a setting of Machiavellian proportions,…” was left out. Machiavellian is 5 syllables.
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08/17/10 - 02:18 PM
Lifetime Dem says...
Next Ervin will be suing God for NOT making him intelligent.
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