![]() You can find a guide to the electorate of Montgomery by ABC News online here and you can follow the election on Saturday 4 May with updates from Anthony Green. Polling places will be open from 8AM until 6PM. The soon to be retired member for Montgomery has also been the President of the Legislative Council since 2008.įind out more about each of the candidates by clicking on the audio player above and listening to Leon Compton's indepth forum. Ms Smith was allocated the electorate of Montgomery as the sitting member for the former electorate of Leven, which she had won the previous year. The electoral division was created at the 1998 Legislative Council electoral bounderies redistribution. The Statewide Mornings program was at Penguin this morning, and presenter Leon Compton spoke at length to each of the candidates, finding out more about their policies and what they would do for the electorate. The seat is located in the Central North West Coast region, ande includes the towns of Ulverstone, Penguin and half of the city of Burnie on the coast, Ridgley and Hampshire to the west, and Forth, Sprent and Nietta to the east. "Galvan is also accused of trying to bribe a registrar employee as she was counting ballots on election night," the DA's office said in a statement last year.Independent Candidates Cheryl Fuller, Kevin Morgan and Ed Vincent, along with Liberal candidate Leonie Hiscutt, are contesting the Legislative Council seat of Montgomery. ![]() Galvan was arrested last year, along with five other people, and charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud and bribery with the intent to influence an election. ![]() "It's just a relief for the entire city to expose it, and hopefully, rid ourselves of it." "I think this helps to get us engaged again," he said. The 39-year-old businessman added that rumors of voter fraud have been common in Compton for years and said that he often worried that the community could lose its faith in voting. "This is something we've been fighting hard for - for the last 11 months." "I'm grateful to the judicial system," he said. "I'm elated," Spicer told NBCLA late Friday. Galvan was further accused of attempting to bribe an elections official with concert tickets, per Dean Logan, the county’s top elections official. On Friday, a Los Angeles Superior Court found that four of the votes cast for two-term Democratic City Council member Isaac Galvan in last year’s city council election were by people who didn't live in the council district.Īlthough Galvan supposedly won last year’s runoff election by a single vote, Judge Michelle Williams Court ruled that - after deducting the illegal votes from Galvan's total - candidate Andre Spicer, who previously contested the results, was the actual winner, with a legal vote count of 854 to 851.Īccording to a Los Angeles Times report, prosecutors alleged that Galvan conspired with candidate Jace Dawson to direct voters from outside the council district to cast votes for Galvan at the polls. The city of Compton, California has been rocked with controversy after the winning candidate for the city council race was charged with voter fraud and bribery.
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