In Re Recount of the Votes Returned for the Office of Attorney General in Election Held November 5, 1974

This is a petition for extraordinary relief relating to the counting of ballots in the election contest for Attorney General in the general election of 1974. Pursuant to 17 V.S.A. § 1366, a recount was held. The original tally and the recount confirmed one fact that is not in dispute. That is that no candidate for the office received a majority of the votes cast, whatever disposition is made of the votes under challenge by this petition. This is the “event of no election” referred to in 17 V.S.A. § 1303 and related statutes.

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