HINTON (WVDN) – Independent Summers County State Senate candidate Harry Lee Forbes has been ruled ineligible to run in the District 10 senatorial race.
On Friday, Oct. 14, Ben Anderson, chair of the Greenbrier County Republican Executive Committee, filed a lawsuit against Forbes and West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner in Kanawha County Circuit Court, citing that Forbes was not eligible to run because he resides in the same county as current Senator Jack David Woodrum.
Forbes was running for the 10th senatorial district, which Sen. Woodrum already serves. According to the lawsuit, West Virginia law does not allow two senators from the same county and district to serve concurrently.
In the hearing, Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers ruled in favor of Anderson, and Forbes will be henceforth removed from the ballot.
Incumbent State Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin (D), Vince Deeds (R) and Aaron Ransom (I) remain in the race.
