By Becky Pallack | Tucson Daily Star
A challenge to the city’s Nov. 3 election results was dismissed Monday by a Pima County Superior Court judge.
Republican City Council candidates Kelly Lawton and Margaret Burkholder filed the challenge, saying the judge should throw out the Nov. 3 election results and either name them the winners or order a do-over election.
That’s because the two lost in the citywide election but say they would have won had the city used a ward-only election. They said a recent opinion from a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel of judges, which said Tucson’s election system is unconstitutional, means the November election was unfair.
