Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins
By a 4-3 decision, the state Supreme Court has ruled that Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins CAN run for re-election in November. Perkins’s candidacy was challenged by a resident whose main complaint was he listed the wrong address on election qualification papers. LSU-Shreveport political science professor Jeff Sadow says he and many others thought the High Court would go the opposite way.
“It was a bit of a surprise,” said Sadow.
A majority of the justices on the state’s highest court say state law does not specifically say you should be disqualified from an election just because a candidate puts down the wrong information regarding the precinct where he or she is registered to vote.
Justice Scott Crichton dissented.
“While I am cognizant of our jurisprudence favoring a liberal construction of candidacy, allowing a certification of proven material false information listed on a notice of candidacy form, filed in the public record, belies the purpose of the form itself and is inconsistent with the integrity with which elections must be conducted,” Crichton wrote.
Perkins says he’s estatic over the ruling now he has to fend off nine other challengers in the November eighth race.
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