Connecticut’s Supreme Court declined Friday to overturn a lower court ruling striking a group of municipal Independent Party candidates from the ballot in Danbury, where two factions have submitted competing candidate slates.
Connecticut’s Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday in an ongoing dispute between factions of the Independent Party in Danbury, where competing slates of candidates are contesting who should appear on the third party’s ballot line in next month’s election.
A state judge has dismissed mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur’s lawsuit trying to press his way onto the Sept. 12 Democratic primary ballot on the grounds that the first absentee ballots have already been cast, the election is therefore underway, and changing which candidates are participating now would run “the risk of voter confusion.”
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