Supported by George Norcross Camden County Democratic Committee Inc. (CCDC), who lost the election to the Party Committee of the Cherry Hill to the list of progressive Democrats, filed a lawsuit on Monday afternoon to question the result.
The direct result is that the progressers will be temporarily excluded to conduct business until the hearing on July 11 at the Camden Court of the Supreme Court.
James Beach, president of CCDC, who also represents Camden’s unit in the Senate of New Jersey, joined the lawsuit against election winners, David Stahl, Susan Drucenbrod and Ren Margulis.
The elections were certified last Thursday.
In nervous progress, the Democrats from South Jersey defeated CCDC with 62% of votes in the primary elections on June 10.
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The progressive board for a 74-member committee consisted of only three people. Progresses say that they will be able to arrange 71 other places.
But CCDC argued that these free places should hit their board.
In fact, in the lawsuit, CCDC asks the court to direct three progressive election winners to appoint 71 Committee nominations from the CCDC table with 74 names that appeared on the vote.
Not everyone agrees that it makes sense.
“I would say it’s funny,” said Jeffrey Land, chairman of the Cherry Hill Republican Committee.
“Remember that voters said no 74. They would be the last people you would like to appoint because the voters spoke and clearly voted against them.”
Progressive Democrats South Jersey – a bottom -up political organization that conducts candidates for the office – as well as experts in the elections in New Jersey, vigorously criticized the position of CCDC.
“The voters have largely chosen progressors,” said Julia Sass Rubin, director of the public policy program at Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at the University of Rutgers.
“This means … lost candidates from CDCC. This is how democratic elections work. There is no consolation prize.”
Nevertheless, the argument has the support of some outstanding democrats in the community, including the Congregation of Melinda Kane (D., Cherry Hill), who said in the statement: “To sum up, they [the progressive] He won three places with 74 places. ”
Last week, the beach spokesman was sent a few questions, but he did not answer.
The stake is an impact on the direction in which the poviat committee will take over the next two years. The progressers tried to make and could not comment on the committee.
The largest municipality in the county
Voters in the communes of Camden elects representatives of the Democratic Party to the District Party Committee of about 522 people.
The number sent from each commune is proportional to its population. Because Cherry Hill is the largest commune in the county of over 78,000 inhabitants, it can send the largest contingent – 74 people – to the Poviat Committee of the party.
Members of the District Committee can make political support at all levels, from the local office to the president and fulfill free political workplaces.
The basic ones were the first election after eliminating the so -called poviat line.
Until last year, voting cards in New Jersey would provide preferential treatment to candidates who were supported by the Poviat Party. The party would certainly mention the names of the preferred candidates in one line, from the president to the city council. Meanwhile, the named names of pretenders would be mentioned “in voting in Siberia”, away from the line, according to Kate Delany, the head of progress at South Jersey.
Voters would simply answer by voting for all candidates on the line. Because the format gave approved candidates such an advantage, Senator Andy Kim (D., NJ) sued before last year’s Senate of Primary And he won in court. The legislator in New Jersey then adopted the law eliminating the poviat line.
But since then another problem with the vote appeared.
In the race of the Cherry Hill South Jersey Progressive Democraci Democrats, in the race of the Camden camden official, Pamela Lampitt in April, claiming that she had violated the new basic right to vote, without placing Ovale next to each of the names of the candidates.
Lampitt office said that It was not technically possible To do this because CCDC mentioned 74 voting names in one section. The progresses conducted three names. This created a voting card, which showed the names of three progressors next to one oval, and 74 names of the Democrats of the County, next to their shared oval.
“Based on this,” Lampaitt said last week, “it was necessary to vote for voting for everyone, because all 74 people could not be replaced [CCDC] Names of the vote itself. “
She added that the decision about this “was kept in the Supreme Court and approved by the judge.”
The progressers won the basic from about 5000 votes to over 3,000 votes of CDCC.
But mathematics did not add to the progressive control over the committee, he argued Beach, saying in a statement last week, that “over 3,000 voters from Cherry Hill voted for 74 qualified candidates who worked hard to win their names in voting. Three fate of the candidates who could not submit a full list of qualified candidates could not get to get over 3000 voters in short, they won 71 seats.
This is a defective interpretation, said Micah Rasmussen, director Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University.
“In voting, voters were asked to” vote for one ” – either progress Democrats South Jersey or Camden County Democratic Committee, Inc.” – said Rasmussen.
“But now CCDC does not like it because they failed.
There is no law on New Jersey, which requires candidates to place all 74 names of people who will serve in the District Committee on voting, said the lawyers’ lawyer. Three progressive winners can choose 71 other people who will serve, added a lawyer, Yael Bromberg, Electoral Professor of the University University Washington College of Law.
“That’s right,” said Land, a Republican, whose political group, the Republican Party of Camden, defeated the competing republican organization called Let’s Build Better last year to control the poviat committee.
“In our case, we won with 12 people in voting and our opponents with 37 years old,” he added. “We are still choosing people to reach our committee allowed in total. You don’t have to do it all.”
Bromberg said that if CCDC had sturdy reservations about three progresses fighting 74 CCDC members in the vote, “they could oppose when the candidate’s petitions were approved a few months ago.
“But this did not happen. This is not an authoritarian state in which the rules are changed after the election.”
