“Chucky” Hansen Won’t Be On Nov. 4th Ballot, Board of Elections Says

The Board of Elections decision made yesterday after a meeting, which lasted for more than four hours, that embattled Senator Alicia ‘Chucky’ Hansen would remain off the November 4 General Election ballot, falls in line with Superior Court documents obtained by the VI Consortium.

The V.I. Supervisor of Elections Caroline Fawkes revealed that she received a court order on Wednesday, Sept., 3, signed by Superior Court Judge Douglas Brady, ordering her to “set aside the nomination papers of Alicia ‘Chucky’ Hansen from the November 4 ballot. The court order appears in the images below.

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The Superior Court Order, obtained by the VI Consortium and dated August 29, 2014 reads:

THIS MATTER is before the Court pursuant to the August 28th Order of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands which reverses and remands this Court’s July 30th 2014 Order, and directs this Court to grant Petitioner’s petition. Pursuant to said Order and remand, it is hereby ORDERED that Petitioner Bryan’s Petition is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that Supervisor of Elections shall set aside the nomination papers of Alicia “Chucky”Hansen, and remove the name Alicia “Chucky” Hansen from the general election ballot.

Hansen has vowed to continue fighting and urged her supporters to remain strong while the battle of her candidacy rages on.

On Thursday, in an exclusive interview with the VI Consortium, Adelbert Bryan said the Supreme Court’s decision concerning Hansen’s candidacy could not be overruled by the Joint Boards of Election.

“The court has already ordered the supervisor of elections to remove [Hansen’s] name on the election ballot for 2014,” Bryan said.

He continued: “The court order is the instruction that must be complied with. Nobody can violate the court order unless they have contempt of order to show cause, so therefore, only if Mrs. Fawkes intend to violate the court order, then she has a problem to go to court to explain to the court why.”

In light of Governor de Jongh’s pardoning of Hansen, Bryan added, “The Governor can’t put nobody on the ballot. The attorney general can’t put nobody on the ballot. Only the supervisor, under the supervision of the Board of Elections, has the authority. So unless [Hansen] is on the ballot, we don’t have anything to be arguing about.”

The only way Hansen can be included on the November 4 General Election ballot is if the V. I. Supreme Court issues a new ruling.