Hardin Removed From Ballot

Ha!

The Milwaukee Election Commission today knocked controversial School Board member Charlene Hardin off the ballot for the spring elections.

Hardin didn’t submit enough valid signatures on her nominating petitions to win a spot on the Feb. 17 primary ballot, said Neil Albrecht, the commission’s deputy director.

Barring a successful challenge or a write-in campaign, that ruling could end Hardin’s re-election quest.

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Hardin needed 400 valid signatures to reach the ballot, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman told her in a letter released today. The veteran board member had submitted about 550 signatures on 56 pages of petitions, although she had crossed out some signatures, Albrecht said.

But after commission staffers reviewed the petitions, they found only 361 valid signatures, Albrecht said. Of the invalid signatures, 30 have technical errors that can be corrected through affidavits, he said.

In other cases, however, “many of her signers were outside her School Board district, and there’s nothing a candidate can do to correct that,” Albrecht said.

Hopefully, MPS will be the better for it.