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Board refers local liquor-option petition to prosecutor after circulator testimony
Summary
The Summit County Board of Elections referred a Feb. 5 local liquor-option petition to the prosecutor after the petition circulator and two witnesses testified that many signatures were not witnessed and several signatures did not match voter records.
The Summit County Board of Elections voted to refer a Feb. 5 local liquor-option petition for a proposed Sunday-sales retail permit to the county prosecutor after testimony indicated the circulator did not personally witness every signature and many signatures did not match voter records.
At a hearing called to review the petition for Nev Navkar Retail, the person who identified himself as Hardie Glassman Shaw, the business owner and the circulator of the petition, testified that he and a colleague went door to door and asked residents to sign the petition. Shaw said they tried to explain the petition and, in many cases, “they sign the paperwork or they took the paper inside,” acknowledging language barriers in the…
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