The St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners will pay nothing for stonewalling the attorney seeking absentee ballot information in a high-profile case last fall after a judge's ruling yesterday.Attorney David Roland sought absentee ballot applications and envelopes in an attempt to show that state Representative Penny Hubbard (D-St. Louis) and other members of her family were winning elections by manipulating the law governing absentee ballots. The board flatly turned him down, but he didn't give up, filing a lawsuit on behalf of activists Bruce Franks, Rasheen Aldridge and Megan Betts to get the information.
He was victorious in August 2016, when St. Louis City Court Judge Julian Bush ruled for Roland and his clients, saying the board of elections had wrongly withheld absentee ballot info.…