Link to article on
northjersey.com:
County Clerk John Hogan uses a poor excuse when
he says the staff is overworked. His office should have gotten it right before it sent out its first notice. Public officials that are paid to enforce election rules should have some knowledge of those rules.
From the article:
"Hope, he said, returned, until councilman and leading Republican
candidate Joel Brizzi filed a complaint with the Bergen County Division of
Elections citing a New Jersey statute known as the "sore loser's
law," which prohibits a candidate who lost a primary from running under a
different party in the general election.
On Wednesday night, Lahullier and Brizzi
received a Bergen County Clerk's letter that informed them Lahullier would be
removed from the ballot. The letter was unsigned but attributed to the county
Election Division.
Brizzi's campaign quickly released a statement that Lahullier was a political
opportunist. On Thursday the campaign's representative said an arrangement
between Lahullier and the local democratic committee was devised soon after the
primary.
"This was a pretty obvious Plan B," said Tom Ammirato, who is
working on campaigns for Brizzi and his running mate Tom Banca.
But Bergen County Clerk John Hogan said
the statement agreeing with Brizzi was sent in error by the election division
staff, which he said is overworked updating procedures to conform to a new
mail-in ballot law."
