In re Nomination Papers of Robertson

ORDER

AND NOW, this 10th day of October, 2012, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is REVERSED, to the extent that it ordered that the signatures unaccompanied by a designation of the year of signing must be stricken from the nomination *1045papers. For the reasons set forth in the dissenting opinion of Senior Judge Colins, such omissions in the context of this particular ease do not constitute material defects warranting the removal of the signatures. Moreover, the interspersal of the challenged signatures among others dated in 2012 supports a common sense deduction that the challenged signatures…