Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray is preparing to decide, possibly as soon as today, whether a Pine Bluff lawyer who accidentally signed up to run for a nonexistent judicial race, including paying the $7,000 filing fee, should be placed on the ballot for next month's judicial election in Jefferson and Lincoln counties.
Gray conducted a four-hour hearing Monday afternoon and agreed to accept some written arguments and evidence through noon Tuesday.
There is no dispute that Sandra Young Harris, 68, accidentally filled out the election paperwork incorrectly. She's been campaigning and raising money since October for the correct race, the judgeship coming open with the retirement of Circuit Judge Leon Jamison. His successor will take office in January.
Harris signed up for 11th West Judicial Circuit, Division 4, sub-district 11.2,
