Lancaster vote called flawed

LANCASTER -- The City Council on Tuesday rejected protesters' calls for results of a municipal election to be thrown out, but not before council members acknowledged a flaw in the system for verifying candidates' eligibility. Kevin Modesti in the Daily New0s.

The council voted 5-0 to certify the April 13 election following a 40-minute hearing on council candidate Johnathon Ervin's claim that an ineligible candidate drew votes that may have cost him the victory.

Earlier, Ervin and the ineligible candidate, Victoria Zavala, led a protest rally outside Lancaster City Hall by supporters claiming Zavala voters were "disenfranchised" when she was found to have been ineligible to run because she lives outside the city.