Jefferson County judicial candidate Linda Hall can have her votes counted in next week’s election, but she won’t be eligible to take office if she gets the most votes.

Fayette County Circuit Judge Samuel Junkin ordered Friday that even though Hall is disqualified from the election, he does not have the authority to tell the county’s chief election official not to count Hall’s votes. “Accordingly, any votes cast for Defendant Linda Hall in the general election, although ineffective to elect Hall, shall still be tabulated in order to determine the result of the election,” the judge said in his order.

Junkin’s latest ruling comes after Hall was disqualified from running for Jefferson County Circuit Court place 16 because she didn’t meet residency requirements that say a candidate must live in the county in which they are campaigning in for at least 12 months prior to the election. Hall was the Democratic nominee for the seat, and was planning to face Republican incumbent Judge Teresa Pulliam on November 6.

In his order, Junkin said his court will retain jurisdiction over the case until after the election to “determine the effect of the outcome.”

In a separate order issued Friday, Junkin said former candidate Peter Davis cannot claim Hall’s spot as the Democratic nominee for the judicial seat. Davis was Hall’s opponent in the Democratic primary earlier this year and after a county voter filed a lawsuit claiming Hall should be barred from running because of she had lived in Shelby County for the majority of the past 12 months, Davis said he was the rightful nominee.

Junkin dismissed Davis’ claims with prejudice, meaning Davis cannot bring back his motion. He may pursue “non-judicial remedies under the rules and bylaws of the Alabama Democratic Party if he chooses to do so,” the order says.

Hall was disqualified from the race after a Junkin determined she had not lived in Jefferson County for the required amount of time. Junkin was appointed to preside over the case after all Jefferson County judges recused themselves.

During a day-long trial, Hall testified about her living arrangements for the past 18 months and said she would not have ran if she was aware she had lived in Shelby County. She said she is aware of the requirement that a person must live in the county in which they’re campaigning in for at least 12 months prior to the election.

Hall said she lived in the Park at Callington apartments until early 2016, when mold infested her unit and she had to move out. From there, Hall moved in February 2017 to apartments on Kenley Way—which was the address she provided on her declaration of candidacy forms with the Alabama Democratic Party. According to her testimony, Hall provided the zip code 35219, which doesn’t match the Kenley Way address, because she didn’t know the correct zip code. Hall said the 35219 zip code matched her P.O. box address in Homewood where she received all of her mail.

Documents shown in court also show Hall provided the Kenley Way address, along with the incorrect zip code, on forms submitted to the Alabama Ethics Commission.

Over the course of 2018, Hall said she has lived in four different apartments because of various issues with mold, foul odors, and smoking neighbors. Hall said the complexes of Kenley Way, Cahaba Grandview, and Inverness Cliffs all advertised they were in the city of Birmingham. Parts of Birmingham overlap into Shelby County, but Hall said she never inquired about the county she was residing in.

Her latest apartment, which Hall said she moved into in early October, is in Jefferson County.

Hall also testified that she lived in St. Louis, MO, between August and December 2017. In St. Louis, she lived in several extended stay hotels.

Hall is also the focus of a death row inmate’s appeal, where his new lawyers have said Hall was mentally unstable during the time she represented Randy Lewis during his capital murder trial in 2007. She was questioned during a hearing for Lewis last week about the case and her mental state during the time period, but said she didn’t remember much about the case and couldn’t look back at her file on Lewis because it had been destroyed. She also denied claims that she poured salt around her home to ward off evil and that she hung talismans in the trees surrounding her home also in attempts to ward off evil. Hall denied having claimed she could conjure the dead and pretending her niece was her own child, which were several of the claims mentioned in Lewis’ appeal.

Hall is represented by Kearney Hutsler and Everett Wess; the complaining voter who filed the residency lawsuit is represented by Barry Ragsdale and Meghan Salvati. John Robbins and Texys Morris are representing Lewis in his appeal.