Hearing held in contested Lynchburg GOP primary ahead of August trial
The two parties in a lawsuit challenging the results of a recent primary election sought access to records that they hope will help resolve the case.
The motion to have the registrar provide the list was jointly filed by Hurd and Zach Werrell, who represents Faraldi and said he agreed to it to help resolve the case more quickly. Faraldi and Werrell have said that the 125 absentee ballots in question were in fact included in the election results, and in a public statement earlier this month, Faraldi called Alexander’s challenge a “baseless, frivolous lawsuit.”
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Hurd acknowledged that those requests did not pertain to issues raised in Alexander’s initial complaint. The judges questioned how Alexander and Hurd would investigate whether voters were felons, lived outside Ward IV or were otherwise not eligible to vote in the primary. They also asked Hurd if there is any evidence of ineligible voters participating or of people voting in both primaries, to which Hurd replied that there is not.
Werrell objected to Alexander’s request for the voter lists.
“I don’t think it’s going to show anything,” he said.
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