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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Ervin-Knott</p>           New Orleans attorney Nakisha Ervin-Knott will compete in a runoff against attorney Clare Jupiter for the Orleans Parish Civil District Court Division E bench, despite a recent ruling that Ervin-Knott's campaign violated the judicial code of conduct.<br /><br />The Louisiana Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee ruled last week that Ervin-Knott made false allegations about nominee Kris Kiefer in her campaign. Ervin-Knott accused Kiefer of being \"a drunk\" in ads run on television and websites YouTube and Facebook.<br /><br />The Oversight Committee ruled that Ervin-Knott had insufficient evidence to back her allegations, but has no power to reprimand her or halt the advertisements.<br /><br />The ruling came just a day before Ervin-Knott received 36 percent of the vote in the three-way race for the Orleans Parish Civil judgeship, while Jupiter received 34 percent and Kiefer received 30 percent.<br /><br />No date has been announced for the runoff.<br /><br />In the race for the Civil District Court Division B bench, New Orleans attorney Regina Bartholomew won in a landslide, taking 63 percent of the vote over opponent Ellen Hazeur. <br /><br />Just over 51,000 votes were cast in the race for the Division B seat with over 51,000 cast for the Division E seat.<br /><br />The Louisiana Secretary of State's office reported that the turnout for Saturday's statewide elections were the lowest they have ever been since 1975. <br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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