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LOUISVILLE — A sitting Democratic state representative has been disqualified as a primary candidate after the Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed a recent Jefferson County Circuit Court decision.Rep. Nima Kulkarni, who filed to run for a fourth term in the 40th House District, is not a bona fide candidate, according to the panel of three judges who issued an opinion Tuesday morning — Sarah Walter Combs, Pamela R. Goodwine and J. Christopher McNeill. The candidacy challenge was filed in court by Dennis Horlander, who previously represented the House district and lost to Kulkarni in the 2018 and 2020 Democratic primaries.
Combs wrote Tuesday’s 12-page opinion and Goodwine and McNeill concurred. The case centers around the validity of Kulkarni’s nominating papers, which had to be signed by two witnesses who are Democratic voters in the 40th District. At the time of signing, one witness was a registered Republican and changed her registration after the filing deadline. The court noted that the witness “is not allowed to vote for Kulkarni in the 2024 Democratic primary election.”
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