Traficant ballot supporters believe valid signatures are sufficient

YOUNGSTOWN — Jim Traficant now has enough signatures to get on the Nov. 2 ballot as an independent candidate for 17th District congressman, a campaign volunteer said.

Werner Lange of Newton Falls made that statement at a news conference today outside the Mahoning County Board of Elections.

Lange issued to the press a list of 40 signatures on Traficant’s petitions, which he said were improperly invalidated by boards of elections in Mahoning, Trumbull and Portage counties.

Among that group are 14 petition signers listed by the elections boards as unregistered, but who are actually registered voters; and 19 listed by those boards as non-genuine signatures, but which match their signatures on file at the boards, Lange said.

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