In re Nomination Petition of McDermott

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

In this ease under the Pennsylvania Election Code (Code), Act of June 3,1937, P.L. 1333, as amended, 25 P.S. §2601, objector Lewis P. Parrilla has presented objections to nomination petitions filed on behalf of respondent Gary McDermott, who sought to be a candidate for the Democratic party’s nomination to the office of township commissioner for the Second Ward of Stowe Township, Allegheny County, in the May, 1981 primary.

The facts are not disputed. The two questioned petitions, each containing the signatures of fifteen qualified Democratic electors of the Second Ward,…