Case Name: In re Petition of Charlotte K. HUMMEL to Establish Identity by Candidate Nominated Under Different Names and Cumulate Votes and Amended Petition to Establish Identity by Candidate Nominated Under Different Names and Cumulate Votes Petition of Charlotte K. Hummel
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 2005-10-14
Citations: 886 A.2d 222
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re Petition of Charlotte K. HUMMEL to Establish Identity by Candidate Nominated Under Different Names and Cumulate Votes and Amended Petition to Establish Identity by Candidate Nominated Under Different Names and Cumulate Votes Petition of Charlotte K. Hummel.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 886
Pages: 222–222

Head Matter:
In re Petition of Charlotte K. HUMMEL to Establish Identity by Candidate Nominated Under Different Names and Cumulate Votes and Amended Petition to Establish Identity by Candidate Nominated Under Different Names and Cumulate Votes Petition of Charlotte K. Hummel.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Oct. 14, 2005.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
AND NOW, this 14th day of October, 2005, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, the order of the Commonwealth Court is VACATED based on 25 P.S. § 8157(a), and this case is REMANDED to the Court of Common Pleas for a hearing on the merits. The trial court is instructed to cumulate such write-in ballots cast in the primary election as are in accordance with 25 P.S § 3062, 3063, 3155, Appeal of McCracken, 370 Pa. 562, 88 A.2d 787 (1952), and Dayhoff v. Weaver, 808 A.2d 1002, 1011 (Pa.Cmwlth.2002). Jurisdiction relinquished.