Failing to file statements of financial interest, or SOFI, promptly and with the appropriate authorities does not invalidate a write-in political candidate’s presence on the ballot, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.

In the court’s unanimous March 26 ruling in Reuther v. Delaware County Bureau of Elections, the justices affirmed a Commonwealth Court ruling that the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act provision disqualifying those who failed to file SOFI pertains only to candidates who petition to be on the ballot and does not apply to write-in candidates.

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