As the months passed, local Democrats attempted to field a replacement to run for the seat in the Nassau County legislature.
But two Republican voters took them to court and won: a state judge recently ordered Krommidas’s name to remain on the November ballot, ruling that he’s still considered missing and not officially deceased.
It’s pretty obvious Krommidas has met an unfortunate fate. This law on the books about assuming an individual dead only after being missing for three years is surely meant for when a husband goes out for cigarettes, not when all the worldly possessions of a person training for a triathlon are left waiting by the water.
The judge’s Ballotpedia is lacking recent information, but in 2017 he ran in an election under the republican banner so just based on that, it’s not surprising to me he chose to follow the letter of the law here as doing so will ultimately benefit the republicans on the ballot come November.
