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Bruce Franks Jr. will get another chance to take on State Rep. Penny Hubbard.
That's by decree of St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Rex M. Burlison, who issued a sharply worded order this afternoon saying that the St. Louis City Board of Elections failed to follow state law governing absentee ballots — and the irregularities were serious enough to require a special election.
Judge Burlison set the election for Friday, September 16.
The decision is a huge victory for Franks, an activist and business owner vying to take down Hubbard, a longtime state legislator and member of one of the city's most powerful Democratic dynasties.
Franks lost to Hubbard in the August 2 Democratic primary by just 90 votes, but he maintained — and Judge Burlison agreed — that problems surrounding the election board's acceptance of absentee ballots was enough to throw the election's outcome into question.
"The Court is firmly convinced that these irregularities affected the outcome of the election," the judge wrote. "These irregularities were more than 'petty procedural infirmities, but abuses of the law that cannot be ignored.'"
Franks won 52.7 percent of ballots cast on election day, but just 21 percent of absentee ballots.…
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Bruce Franks Jr. will get another chance to take on State Rep. Penny Hubbard.
That's by decree of St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Rex M. Burlison, who issued a sharply worded order this afternoon saying that the St. Louis City Board of Elections failed to follow state law governing absentee ballots — and the irregularities were serious enough to require a special election.
Judge Burlison set the election for Friday, September 16.
The decision is a huge victory for Franks, an activist and business owner vying to take down Hubbard, a longtime state legislator and member of one of the city's most powerful Democratic dynasties.
Franks lost to Hubbard in the August 2 Democratic primary by just 90 votes, but he maintained — and Judge Burlison agreed — that problems surrounding the election board's acceptance of absentee ballots was enough to throw the election's outcome into question.
"The Court is firmly convinced that these irregularities affected the outcome of the election," the judge wrote. "These irregularities were more than 'petty procedural infirmities, but abuses of the law that cannot be ignored.'"
Franks won 52.7 percent of ballots cast on election day, but just 21 percent of absentee ballots.…
