OCEAN PINES – A Worcester County Circuit Court judge has granted a temporary restraining order suspending the association’s board election until a decision is reached on the eligibility status of disqualified candidate Rick Farr.
On Tuesday, Judge Beau Oglesby signed a temporary restraining order prohibiting the counting of ballots and certification of election results as the court considers a complaint filed by Farr’s legal counsel against the Ocean Pines Association (OPA) and the Board of Directors.
“More generally, in the case, we are principally seeking a ruling by the Court that: 1) Mr. Farr is and has been eligible based on his equitable ownership (since 2000) of his property; and 2) the Board acted improperly (and in violation of applicable statute), in closed session, in regard to determining Mr. Farr to be ineligible and deciding to not count votes cast for him (having the effect of disenfranchising many votes),” Farr’s attorney, Bruce Bright, said in a statement this week.
The order, which comes a day after the Board of Directors voted against a motion to rescind the current election process, opines proceeding with the election would cause irreparable harm to not only Farr, but to voters and other candidates.
“The Court finds that, in the absence of immediate injunctive relief as set forth herein, harm may result to the integrity of the election results that will be irreparable in that: if the election proceeds unabated during the pendency of this case, by the time the issues in this case (which the Court finds to be facially meritorious) have been fully and finally adjudicated, and in the event Plaintiff’s claims are sustained or partly sustained, the election results will have already been certified and publicly announced, votes for Plaintiff will not have been counted or included in the vote count, voters having cast a vote for Plaintiff will have been disenfranchised, and purportedly elected candidates other than Plaintiff will have been already confirmed as Board members and perhaps Officers,” the order reads.
another crooked election? why not let anybody in the world run and everybody in the world vote? problem solved!