In Re Nomination Petition of Farnese

OPINION IN SUPPORT OF PER CURIAM ORDER

justice McCaffery.

In 2008, Appellee, Lawrence Farnese, Jr., then a candidate for state senator, filed a nomination petition to be on the Democratic Party’s primary election ballot. Pursuant to 25 P.S. § 2872.1(13), a nomination petition for that office must contain at least 500 signatures, and Appellee’s petition contained 1778 signatures. When the validity of the signatures was challenged on a number of grounds in the Commonwealth Court, Appellee withdrew 934 signatures on the advice of counsel, who agreed that the withdrawn signatures were invalid…