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VERIFIED COMPLAINT
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EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
ELECTION POLITICAL-BODY ELECTION CODE POLITICAL PARTIES PLAINTIFFS REGISTERED VOTERS DEFENDANTS LASD PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION CODE COUNTY COURT LEECHBURG AREA SCHOOL POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT RIGHTS HEREINAFTER INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES BOARD MEMBERS UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS ACTION MINOR-POLITICAL-PARTY CANDIDATES DISQUALIFICATION SCHOOL-BOARD CANDIDATEDISQUALIFICATION STANDARDS NOMINATION PAPERS CONSTITUTION GENERAL ELECTION REPUBLICAN POLITICAL BODIES |
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
THE PUBLIC INTEREST, a political )
association, CHARLES A. PASCAL, )
JR., and MARY BETH GIRARDI, ))
Plaintiffs, )) Civil Action No.:________
v. ))
ARMSTRONG COUNTY BOARD OF )
ELECTIONS; JAMES V. SCAHILL, JACK )
F. DUNMIRE, and HOMER CRYTZER, as )
election board members; and WENDY )
BUZARD, Director of Elections )
Department, ))
Defendants. )
VERIFIED COMPLAINT
A. NATURE OF ACTION
1. Plaintiffs in this civil rights action are a political
body known as The Public Interest, a registered voter who desires
to cast her votes for the Leechburg Area School District
(hereinafter "LASD") Public Interest school-board candidate, and
the school board candidate himself. They challenge Defendant
county elections' officials' application to them of a facially
discriminatory Pennsylvania Election Code (hereafter "Code")
provision that establishes two different candidate-
disqualification standards - one that applies to established
political parties and a different, much more burdensome one that
applies to smaller emerging political associations and
independent candidates. More specifically, the Code permits the
two major parties to nominate as their local school-board
candidate any registered voter, regardless of party affiliation.
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