A candidate for Broward County judge cannot use his birth name, which he legally changed nearly 20 years ago, on the primary ballot in an attempt to win over ethnic voters, a Palm Beach judge ruled Friday.

Circuit Judge Edward Garrison decided Jordan Jordan, who filed to run against Broward County Judge Mary Rudd Robinson, under the name Jordan Howard Breslaw, cannot switch now. Ballot printing is set to begin Friday.

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