Three Candidates Whose Petitions Were Challenged Will Remain on Eighth District Council Ballot, Barring Major Setback

The acting supervisor for elections in Philadelphia said Tuesday there's "a 99 percent chance" three potential candidates for the Eighth District City Council seat will remain on the ballot after challenges to their petitions were denied.

Carmen Seminara said challenges were filed to the petitions of Andrew Lofton, William Durham and Robin Tasco—three of the . But he said Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Chris Wogan didn't honor the challenges.

Seminara said they were denied, essentially, because the challengers "were not able" to prove their case.

Wogan, however, has not yet heard a case involving a challenge to candidate Jordan Dillard. Seminara said that case would happen Tuesday and said a decision would likely come later on.

Seminara said former candidate Fay Dawson was previously thrown off the ballot.

No challenges were filed to petitions submitted by Greg Paulmier, Cindy Bass, Verna Tyner and Howard Treatman.

The only way, Seminara said, that the challenges could be honored is if things get complicated and a continuance is granted. But he said that rarely happens.

All of the candidates in the race are Democrats.

The first of three voter forums being put on by Newsworks is Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown (6001 Germantown Ave).