Court filing: Democrats say Shaun Brown's listed address is not her residence
Virginia Democrats have enlarged their arguments seeking to remove congressional candidate Shaun Brown from the Nov. 6 ballot, saying in a court filing that all her petitions are invalid because her home address is phony on the documents.
The accusation is a new addition to the state partys lawsuit filed Aug. 13 against state elections officials, seeking to remove Brown, an independent, from the 2nd Congressional District ballot over claims that scores of signatures are fraudulent. State officials had reviewed and approved her petitions weeks ago.
The suit involves petitions collected by workers for Rep. Scott Taylors re-election campaign; separate investigations by the Democratic Party and The Virginian-Pilot found more than 80 signatures where the person listed as signing said they never signed the petition and a handful of other individuals who apparently are deceased. That sparked a criminal probe being conducted by a special prosecutor.
Attorneys for Democrats argued in a supplemental filing late Friday to the civil suit in the Richmond Circuit Court that all of Browns petitions list one of two home addresses that were not her residence. One location is a non-existent address and the other a townhouse where the landlord said she offered to let Brown use it for her campaign but Brown never did.
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