Bell v. Lehigh County Board of Elections

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Eleanor C. Bell (Bell) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County (trial court) denying Bell’s motion to preliminarily enjoin the Lehigh County Board of Elections (Board) from placing a voter initiative relating to the City of Allentown’s (City) Landlord Licensing Law (Ordinance) on the May 1999 election ballot. We affirm.

On November 25, 1998, five City voters, desiring to invoke the initiative process of the City’s Home Rule Charter (Charter),1 submitted ninety-three petitions to the City clerk. The petitions contained more than 2,000 signatures of…