Realistic Balance Candidates Back on the Ballot

Realistic Balance Party endorsed candidates (l-r) Stephen
Devoto, John Killian, Steve Smith

The Middletown Patch and the Middletown Press are reporting that Superior Court Judge Julie Aurigemma has ordered the Town Clerk of Middletown to place Realistic Balance candidates, who had been removed from the ballot. back on the ballot

This move is most important to Planning and Zoning candidate Steve Smith who was the only candidate completely removed from the ballot.  Other Realistic Balance Party candidates had been cross-endorsed by other parties.

Middletown has already released absentee ballots without those candidates included, but ballots for the polls had been withheld from printing until the court decision became final.

When asked Monday evening what the city planned to do about the absentee ballots, Mayor Dan Drew said he was not sure, but that he had asked the Town Clerk to formulate a plan for informing absentee voters.