Sagamihara City Parliament Decided to Reject Claims for Candidates Lost by Lottery 21:07 on September 11

In the Sagamihara City Council election in April, the Kanagawa Election Management Committee decided to dismiss the allegations for the examinations made by candidates who were selected by lottery over the last seat.

In the Chuo-ku constituency of the Sagamihara city council elections in April, two newcomers voted for the last seat in the same number of 3158 votes, and the lottery was decided by lottery according to the provisions of the Public Office Election Law.

Mr. Chizuru Matsuura, who was dismissed, filed an objection claiming that there was a possibility that his vote was invalid in the vote judged to be invalid, but the election management committee in the city rejected, so Kanagawa Prefecture Election Management An appeal was filed with the committee.

The prefectural election management committee made a decision to reject allegations after reviewing all the votes last month, and handed a decision to Matsuura on the 11th.

In the ruling document, there are 3 invalid votes, such as “Matsuura Chikako”, which are similar to the names of other candidates. It ’s hard to judge whether it ’s done. ”

Matsuura says, “It's a shame because the claim was not accepted. The content is difficult to convince, and we are preparing to file a lawsuit with the court to respond to the wishes of the voters.”