Hearing Set In South Windsor Election Lawsuit

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — A long-delayed court fight over South Windsor’s 2025 Town Council election is finally headed to a full Superior Court hearing, with arguments in Amadasun v. Armstrong scheduled for April 1 in Hartford.

The hearing date was announced after months of delays in the voter disenfranchisement case brought by Harrison Amadasun, who claims he was wrongly denied a Town Council seat despite receiving enough votes to win.

The April 1 hearing before Connecticut Superior Court Judge Carl Schuman marks the next major step in a case that has drawn intense political attention in South Windsor since last fall’s election.

The dispute stems from the Nov. 4, 2025, Town Council race, when Amadasun received 3,847 votes but was not seated. Instead, the final seat went to Republican Rick Balboni, who received 2,937 votes.

At the center of the case is how South Windsor officials applied charter revisions approved by voters the same day as the election. The changes reduced the maximum number of seats one party could hold on the council from six to five.

Democrats have argued those revisions were never meant to take effect immediately. They say the bipartisan Charter Review Commission made clear the changes were intended for 2027 implementation, not the 2025 election.

They have pointed to commission recordings, approved minutes, which they say confirms there was bipartisan agreement on a 2027 effective date.

The case got a major boost on Jan. 13, when the Connecticut Supreme Court unanimously upheld the validity of Amadasun’s complaint after an expedited review, allowing the case to move forward.

That ruling did not decide the underlying election dispute, but it cleared the way for a full hearing on Amadasun’s voter disenfranchisement claims.

Now, the focus turns to Hartford, where the court is set to hear arguments over whether Amadasun was wrongly denied the seat and whether the election outcome was improperly altered after the votes were cast.