Court Opinion

ID: 9706430
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:43:23.748761+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:22.668142
License: Public Domain

Justice EAKIN,
concurring.
I join the majority’s decision affirming the Commonwealth Court’s order, as it applied existing precedent. However, I write separately to reiterate my view that In re Benninghoff, 578 Pa. 402, 852 A.2d 1182 (2004), and In re Nomination Petition of Anastasio, 820 A.2d 880 (Pa.Cmwlth.2003), aff'd per curiam, 573 Pa. 512, 827 A.2d 373 (2003), are irreconcilable and that “fatal defects [of nomination petitions] are limited to untimely filings.” See Benninghoff, at 1190, 1192 (Castille, J., concurring, joined by Eakin, J.). Under this *465view, Candidate’s amended nomination petition would have been allowed, and he would have appeared on the ballot.