More local candidates knocked off the primary ballot

MoreThanTheCurve.com reported on March 22nd on two challenges to candidate petitions for the May 18th primary election. The two challenges asked the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas to remove the candidates’ names from the ballot due to not having submitted a statement of financial interest to the Borough of Conshohocken by the deadline. Longtime incumbent James “Ike” Griffin survived his challenge (he filed his statement of financial interest a few days late), but Martin Eckert was removed.

Griffin will face Adrian Serna in the Democratic Party primary for the ward 2 seat on Conshohocken’s Borough Council. With Eckert off the ballot, incumbent Anita Barton is unchallenged in the Democratic Party primary for the Ward 4 seat on Conshohocken’s Borough Council.

Since then, there have been additional challenges.

Democrat Saleema Lovelace was removed from the ballot on judicial order due to not filing a statement of financial interest with the township and issues with signatures on her petition. Nicholas R. J. Whitney will now be unopposed in the open seat for the ward 1 seat on Plymouth’s Council.

In other races, Teresa Parris was removed from the ballot for constable in ward 2 in Conshohocken due to judicial order for not filing a statement of financial interest with the state (constables are considered state officials) and Christine Hall withdrew from the race for judge of election for ward 6 in Conshohocken.