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TORONTO \u2014 A Toronto lawyer who says he represents a disenfranchised member of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives has taken legal action in an effort to extend the party’s leadership race by a week.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Radnoff says he filed an application for an injunction to extend the process on Thursday and the Superior Court of Justice will hear the application on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Voting in the race is scheduled to end on Friday at noon and the winner is set to be announced at a convention on Saturday, just months ahead of a general election.<\/p>\n

Radnoff says his client, listed on the notice of application as Christopher Arsenault, did not receive a personal identification number allowing him to vote in the leadership election.<\/p>\n

The chair of the leadership organizing committee, Hartley Lefton, wrote in an email Thursday that the party’s election is in accordance with the PC constitution.<\/p>\n

Lefton says the party already extended the voting period once, and extended the verification period three times.<\/p>\n

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