Election Board votes for special election to replace judicial records clerk

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County’s Board of Elections voted to hold a special election Nov. 4 for the vacant clerk of judicial records row office — the board’s second vote to declare a special election in less than a week.

Wednesday’s session represented the continuation of Friday’s meeting where the board made up of Commissioner Bill Gaughan, Commissioner Chris Chermak and county Judge Terrence R. Nealon voted 2-0, with Chermak abstaining, to declare a Nov. 4 special election for the commissioner seat former Democratic Commissioner Matt McGloin vacated in late February. That vote prompted a legal challenge seeking to block the special election for McGloin’s seat.

The Lackawanna County Democratic Committee and three candidates the committee advanced as potential appointees to fill the commissioner seat pursuant to a procedure set out in the county Home Rule Charter seek an injunction to stop the special election in that case, which they contend is illegal. The three potential appointees are former county Economic Development Director Brenda Sacco, Olyphant Borough Council President James Baldan and Scranton School Director Robert J. Casey.

The charter tasks the commissioned judges of the county Court of Common Pleas with appointing one of those three to fill the commissioner vacancy, at least temporarily. The court is interviewing the three candidates Thursday and the judges plan to make an appointment thereafter, Nealon said.




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