Green Party Activist Sues Kate Brown Over Hales Elections Complaint

Willamette Week:

Seth Woolley, a Green Party activist and two-time candidate for Secretary of State, has filed suit (PDF) in Marion County Court against Secretary of State Kate Brown alleging that the elections division, which Brown controls, failed to properly investigate an earlier elections complaint Woolley filed against then-mayoral candidate Charlie Hales.

Woolley had maintained that Hales was not a legally registered Oregon voter when he filed to run for Portland mayor and therefore his candidacy was invalid.

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