TOLEDO -- Late Monday afternoon Democrat Carol Contrada issued a statement in response to Republican George Sarantou filing a Contest of Election in their Lucas County Commissioner race.
I am confident in the election process, including the re-count, and believe that all legal votes were properly validated and correctly counted by the Board of Elections.
As a lawyer, I will not comment on the actual legal filing until I have had a chance to review it. However, based on my knowledge of the election process, I think this is a waste of taxpayer money, prosecutorial and judicial time, and I’m surprised and disappointed that Mr. Sarantou has chosen this course of action.
I have confidence that the law has been followed, and that the election process will be upheld by the court.
Mr. Sarantou was also satisfied with the election process until he found out he was the loser. He had the opportunity to question the validity of provisional ballots for 10 days following the election while they were being processed, and he chose not to. Instead, he now wants to throw out an entire election because it didn’t go his way. That is an insult to every legitimate voter in this county.
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