Legal Opinion
In Re Nomination Petition of Payton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 18, 2008No. 25 MAP 2008, No. 69 MM 2008PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
2Per curiam
AND NOW, this 18th day of April, 2008, the order of the Commonwealth Court is hereby AFFIRMED. With regard to appellant’s claim that the invalidity of specific signatures or pages of the nomination petition invalidates other signatures or the petition as a whole, we note, “The invalidity of any sheet of a nomination petition ... shall not affect the validity of such petition ... if a sufficient petition ... remains after eliminating such invalid sheet.” 25 P.S. § 2936. Thus, a court cannot presumptively invalidate nomination signatures based on nothing more than the invalidity of other…
3Cases cited2 opinions
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