Word: conventioneers
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Cambridge Convention '75, a liberal political group, challenged the Ward One vote in the March city council election because of the alleged misuse of absentee ballots by another candidate, Edward T. Stewart, a convention spokesman said yesterday.
On Tuesday, Lawrence W. Frisoli, a candidate in that council election, and Lawrence DeGugliolmo filed suit in Middlesex County Court against Sondra Scheir, an election commissioner, and several other convention members on behalf of Stewart. The suit charges libel, alleging that the convention members did "intentionally, maliciously, negligently and recklessly...
A Cambridge Convention spokesman, who requested anonymity, said the convention had challenged all absentee ballots in Ward One because they did not know which had been signed by notaries "associated with" Stewart.
The spokesman said the fact that some of the ballots challenged were marked, for Frisoli and notarized by DeGugliolmo was "basically incidental," and that the convention had never actually accused the two of any wrongdoing.
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