REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL Michael Walsh can appear on September’s primary ballot under a Essex County Superior Court judge’s ruling issued Friday.
The decision, which came from Associate Justice Jeffrey Karp, overrules a State Ballot Law Commission decision to scrub Walsh’s name from the ballot over his submission of allegedly fraudulent nomination signatures.
In the ruling, Karp said that “despite substantial evidence in the record of voter fraud” the commission lacked jurisdiction to consider the complaint from Massachusetts Democratic Party Executive Director Adam Roof alleging that Walsh had submitted fraudulent nomination signatures and did not have the required 10,000 certified signatures to get on the ballot.
Early on in the case, Walsh moved to dismiss Roof’s complaint saying he failed to meet the requirement to serve the objection via certified mail. In its…
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