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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
In General District Court on Tuesday, Doris Critzer and Mary Updike were found guilty of improprieties during the campaign for the Washington Town Council earlier this year. Each must pay a $50 civil fine.
Ms. Critzer was charged with circulating a sample ballot that did not meet Virginia Code requirements, and she pleaded not guilty. The sample ballot was not in the required 24 point type, had no authorization on it by a candidate, and was on white paper (by law it must be printed on any paper other than white).
Ms. Critzer said that she was supposed to have been given a package of rules when she signed up to run for Town Council, but that she did not receive them until three days before the election. She said, “I did not do this willingly and knowingly.”
According to testimony from Major Ed Streapy, Ms. Critzer said that she was given about 100 copies of the sample ballot by Mary Updike and she distributed them throughout the town. She told Msyor Streapy that when she gave the ballots out to the people whose names were on the ballot they said they had no objection to being on it.
The sample ballot did not list all the names of candidates running for the Town Council. The names included on the ballot were J. Stewart Willis, Jr. for mayor; Thomas L. Zumwalt for treasurer; and Doris A. Critzer, Steve Owen Critzer, J. Newbill Miller, Janice S. Moffett, Mary V. Updike and Florence M. Tupper for council members.
It is not against the law, however, to leave some names off sample ballots.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke said, “This was not a willful violation. Someone running for election has a duty to know the rules.
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