A do-over election for a Oakland Borough Council seat that ended in a tie last November has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, with Republican incumbent Kevin Slasinski facing off against independent Matthew Dumpert.<\/p>\n
A legal contest fraught with delays had one last waiting period when it took embattled Superior Court Judge Kelly Conlon five days to sign a consent order.<\/p>\n
Local officials moved more quickly than Conlon, designing and printing vote-by-mail ballots and mailing them yesterday.\u00a0 A ballot drawing was held last week.<\/p>\n
Conlon rejected a ballot cast by\u00a0a 30-year-old woman who lives in Chicago with her husband but votes out of her parents\u2019 home in Oakland.<\/p>\n
At a trial last month, the woman declined to testify \u2013 she had indicated an intention to exercise her Fifth Amendment privilege\u00a0\u2013 and Conlon instead heard testimony from the woman\u2019s parents as to their daughter\u2019s political leanings.\u00a0 Conlon used her clairvoyant skills to determine who the woman voted for and dropped the vote \u2013 bringing the race to a tie. \u00a0(Over 300 voters in Oakland did not vote in the council race, but Conlon never considered that possibility.<\/p>\n
Last year, it took Conlon ten days to hold a hearing to get a recount of the tied election, and then more than a week to actually recount the ballots.\u00a0 Conlon ordered a brief to outline reasons why an error in the count might have been made, an event that doesn\u2019t really matter since the result was a tie.<\/p>\n
The last day to register to vote for the March 10 election is February 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A do-over election for a Oakland Borough Council seat that ended in a tie last November has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-174651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}